新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

heightIELTS重点词汇

英 [haɪt]

[NOUN]

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NOUN. 名词

heights
1. [C, U 有变体名词] 高度
The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top.
双语例句
例：
Her weight is about normal for her height.
按她的身高，她的体重大体正常。
例：
I am 5'6'' in height.
我的身高是5英尺6英寸。
例：
The tree can grow to a height of 7 metres.
此树可以长到7米高。
例：
He was a man of medium height.
他中等身材。
2. [U 不可数名词] 高
Height is the quality of being tall.
双语例句
例：
She admits that her height is intimidating for some men.
她承认自己的高个儿对一些男人而言是吓人的。
3. [C, U 有变体名词] 高度
A particular height is the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned.
双语例句
例：
At the speed and height at which he was moving, he was never more than half a second from disaster.
以这样的速度在这么高的地方移动，他离灾难永远只有半步之遥。
4. [C 可数名词] 高处
A height is a high position or place above the ground.
双语例句
例：
I'm not afraid of heights.
我不恐高。
5. [SING 单数型名词] 顶点 , 高潮
When an activity, situation, or organization is at its height, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense.
近义词
peak
双语例句
例：
At its height, the antiwar movement drew supporters from nearly every political camp.
反战运动达到高潮时，几乎从所有政治阵营都吸引来了支持者。
6. [SING 单数型名词] 顶点
If you say that something is the height of a particular quality, you are emphasizing that it has that quality to the greatest degree possible.
双语例句
例：
The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion.
黑白圆点的紧身连衣裙当时是最新潮的。
7. [PL 复数] 极点
If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense.
双语例句
例：
the mid-1980s, when prices rose to absurd heights.
物价高得离谱的20世纪80年代中期。