height /haɪt/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-VAR The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top. 高度

  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。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT Height is the quality of being tall. 高

  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. 

  N-VAR A particular height is the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned. 高度

  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. 

  N-COUNT A height is a high position or place above the ground. 高处

  例：

  I'm not afraid of heights.

  我不恐高。

• 5. 

  N-SING When an activity, situation, or organization is at its height, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense. 顶点; 高潮

  例：

  At its height, the antiwar movement drew supporters from nearly every political camp.

  在高潮阶段，反战运动从几乎每个政治派别那里都吸引来了支持者。

• 6. 

  N-SING 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. 顶点 [强调]

  例：

  The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion.

  黑白圆点紧身连衣裙当时是最新潮的。

• 7. 

  N-PLURAL If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense. 极点

  例：

  ...the mid-1980s, when prices rose to absurd heights.

  …物价上升至荒谬极点的20世纪80年代中期。