zenith
英 ['zen?θ]
美['z?n?θ]
- n. 頂峰；頂點(diǎn)；最高點(diǎn)
- n. (Zenith)人名；(英)齊尼思
- n. 真力時(shí)（瑞士名表）
擴(kuò)展詞匯TOEFLGRETEM8
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?zeniths;
中文詞源
zenith 天頂，鼎盛時(shí)期
來(lái)自中世紀(jì)拉丁語(yǔ)senit,來(lái)自阿拉伯語(yǔ)samt,路，通道，詞源同azimuth,縮寫(xiě)自samt ar-ras,位于頭頂?shù)牡缆罚瑀as,頭。而該詞最終又來(lái)自早期拉丁語(yǔ)semita,旁路，邊路，se-,分開(kāi)，mita-,改變，詞源同mutual,由羅馬人占據(jù)敘利亞時(shí)傳入，后來(lái)羅馬人離開(kāi)，公元7世紀(jì)左右阿拉伯人又征服了敘利亞，該詞又傳入阿拉伯，最終又在公元14世紀(jì)進(jìn)入了拉丁語(yǔ)。
英文詞源
- zenith
- zenith: [14] Arabic samt arrās means literally ‘path over the head’. Samt ‘path, road’ made its way via Old Spanish zenit and Old French cenit into English as zenith, bringing with it the metaphorical application to the ‘point in the sky directly overhead’. The plural of samt, sumūt, is the ultimate source of English azimuth [14].
=> azimuth - zenith (n.)
- "point of the heavens directly overhead at any place," late 14c., from Old French cenith (Modern French zénith), from Medieval Latin cenit, senit, bungled scribal transliterations of Arabic samt "road, path," abbreviation of samt ar-ras, literally "the way over the head." Letter -m- misread as -ni-.
The Medieval Latin word could as well be influenced by the rough agreement of the Arabic term with classical Latin semita "sidetrack, side path" (notion of "thing going off to the side"), from se- "apart" + *mi-ta-, suffixed zero-grade form of PIE root *mei- (1) "to change" (see mutable). Figurative sense of "highest point or state" is from c. 1600.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The zenith of Perugia'sinfluence came with the defeat of Siena in 1358.
- 1358年擊敗錫耶納之后佩魯賈的影響力達(dá)到了頂峰。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. His career is now at its zenith.
- 他的事業(yè)現(xiàn)在處于鼎盛時(shí)期。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. The sun rises, reaches its zenith and sets.
- 太陽(yáng)升起，達(dá)到最高點(diǎn)，然后落下。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Opera reached its zenith at the turn of the century.
- 歌劇在本世紀(jì)初達(dá)到了它的頂峰.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 5. It felt as if we had traveled from nadir to zenith.
- 感覺(jué)上我們好像已從天底走到了天頂.
來(lái)自辭典例句