| 单词 | ultima thule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasultima Thule b. transferred. As the type of the extreme limit of travel and discovery, chiefly (after Latin usage) in the phrase ultima Thule (farthest Thule); (hence) figurative the highest or uttermost point or degree attained or attainable, the acme, limit; the lowest limit, the nadir. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > destination scope?1611 stint1618 landing-place1727 Thule1771 destination1787 goal1788 ultimatum1862 the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > extreme limit of travel and discovery Thule1771 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > highest, utmost, or extreme degree heightOE perfectiona1398 utterestc1410 uttermosta1425 tiptoec1440 pinnaclec1450 utmost1472 outmostc1535 extremity1543 abyss1548 top1552 furthest, utmost stretch1558 summa summarum1567 superlative1573 strain1576 extreme1595 fine1596 last1602 yondmost1608 super-superlative1623 pitch1624 utmostness1674 pink1720 supreme1817 ultima Thule1828 peak1902 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > low condition or low point > lowest point low tide1608 low-water mark1651 falla1662 perigee1662 low point1749 bathos1759 nadir1793 pessimism1794 zero1821 bed-rock1883 rock-bottom1885 ultima Thule1976 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 12 I am now little short of the Ultima Thule, if this appellation properly belongs to the Orkneys or Hebrides. 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Characters 12/1 An unknown coast, which he [sc. Cook] named Sandwich Land, the thule of the Southern hemisphere. 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 136 The caricature of a fop, the ultima Thule of extravagant frippery. 1878 Times 10 May The expedition reached their Ultima Thule. 1954 M. Lowry Let. 22 May (1967) 370 Before you write off that behaviour as being the ultima thule of ingratitude..try to understand the effect your news..had on me. 1976 L. Davidoff et al. in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women iv. 157 The one who had ‘fallen’ out of the respectable society..to the ultima Thule of prostitution. < as lemmas |
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