zenith
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源自中古英語 cenyth,源自中世紀拉丁語 cenit,源自阿拉伯語 سَمْت (samt, 「方向,小路」),源自完整形式سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʔs, 「頭的朝向」)。以-ni-代-m-的情況有時被認為是誤讀了三個筆畫。這個說法確實有道理,但是也可能只是發音模仿導致的。
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zenith (複數 zeniths)
- (天文學) 天頂 (觀測者頭頂水平向上的位置)
- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point […]
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- 1671–1693: Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in: 1895, Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham, page 44
- In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith.
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- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 180, [1]
- In the east a pillar of cloud reared from horizon to zenith, with a kind of arm outstretched like a threatening colossus.
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- 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique
- (天文學) 天頂 (天體在天上達到的最大高度)
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- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter II:
- As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […] 。Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […] , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
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- (引申義) 頂點,頂峰
- Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.
- 在洲際錦標賽中奪冠是我生涯的巔峰。
- 近義詞: acme、apogee、culmination、pinnacle
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- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 章號 13, 出自 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 卷s (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- It was during those civil troubles […] this aspiring family reached the zenith.
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- 1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek[2],頁號 173:
- "There for a while I enjoyed myself in the zenith of glory and pleasure."
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