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单词 climax
释义
climax
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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 FAMILY
climax: anticlimax, climactic, climaxed, climaxes, climaxing+/anticlimactic: anticlimactical, anticlimactically/anticlimax: anticlimactic, anticlimaxes/climactic: climactically
USAGE EXAMPLES
That 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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