英语词汇“to reach a crescendo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. colloquial (originally U.S.). The peak of an increase in volume, force, or intensity; a climax. Esp. in to reach a crescendo.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase

status1577

apex1624

sublimity1637

climax1647

culmination1657

acme1761

boiling-point1773

crescendo1925

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > to highest degree > reach highest degree of increase

to grow to a head1579

to gather to a heada1616

to come to a head1655

culminatea1662

climax1882

to reach a crescendo1925

to top off1970

to top out1972

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 68 The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home.

1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime iv. 54 The babble at the bar had risen to a sudden crescendo.

1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 170 The crescendo came when more than sixteen hundred bombers battered the coastal defences.

1958 L. M. Uris Exodus i. xxvii. 160 At the end of the second week the Jews were still holding fast and the clamour in the press was reaching a crescendo.

1961 E. E. Golay Organizing Local Ch. v. 57 The total process of evangelism reaches the crescendo when the group of new members stands before the congregation to declare publicly their faith.

1975 Economist 16 Aug. 8/1 It was in relation to the annual increment arrangements of the civil service pay system that your attack reached its crescendo of unfairness.

单词	to reach a crescendo
释义	> as lemmas to reach a crescendo e. colloquial (originally U.S.). The peak of an increase in volume, force, or intensity; a climax. Esp. in to reach a crescendo. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase to highest point or degree > highest point of increase status1577 apex1624 sublimity1637 climax1647 culmination1657 acme1761 boiling-point1773 crescendo1925 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > to highest degree > reach highest degree of increase to grow to a head1579 to gather to a heada1616 to come to a head1655 culminatea1662 climax1882 to reach a crescendo1925 to top off1970 to top out1972 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iii. 68 The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime iv. 54 The babble at the bar had risen to a sudden crescendo. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 170 The crescendo came when more than sixteen hundred bombers battered the coastal defences. 1958 L. M. Uris Exodus i. xxvii. 160 At the end of the second week the Jews were still holding fast and the clamour in the press was reaching a crescendo. 1961 E. E. Golay Organizing Local Ch. v. 57 The total process of evangelism reaches the crescendo when the group of new members stands before the congregation to declare publicly their faith. 1975 Economist 16 Aug. 8/1 It was in relation to the annual increment arrangements of the civil service pay system that your attack reached its crescendo of unfairness. extracted from crescendon. < as lemmas
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