| 单词 | climax |
| 释义 | climax (once / 675 pages) nv When something — like a movie or piece of music — reaches its most important or exciting part, that's the climax. A climax is a high point. When you're on a roller coaster and you reach the highest point, that's the climax of the ride. This word is also used often in art and entertainment. In an adventure movie, there's usually a moment near the end when there's a lot of danger, suspense, and action — a point the whole movie has been building towards. That's the climax. After a climax, tension is released and things calm down. After a climax, you probably want to say "Whew!" WORD FAMILYclimax: anticlimax, climactic, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing+/anticlimactic: anticlimactical, anticlimactically/anticlimax: anticlimactic, anticlimaxes/climactic: climactically USAGE EXAMPLESThat really for me became the emotional climax of the whole film. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) The German beat the Briton by five points after a long battle over 21 races climaxed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) But how do women know for sure if they are climaxing? The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) 1n the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding the climax of the artist's career Syn|Hyper flood tide juncture, occasion an event that occurs at a critical time 2n the decisive moment in a novel or play the deathbed scene is the climax of the play Syn|Hyper culmination instant, minute, moment, second a particular point in time 3n the most severe stage of a disease Hyper degree, level, point, stage a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process 4n the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse Hyper consummation the act of bringing to completion or fruition 5n arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) 6v end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage Syn|Hypo|Hyper culminate crown, top be the culminating event cease, end, finish, stop, terminate have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical |
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