heights

英 [haɪts]

美 [haɪts]

n.  (人或物的)身高; 高; 高度
height的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （从底到顶的）身高;高度
  Theheightof a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top.
  1. Her weight is about normal for her height...
     按她的身高，她的体重基本正常。
  2. I am 5'6'' in height...
     我身高5英尺6英寸。
  3. The wave here has a length of 250 feet and a height of 10 feet...
     这里的浪有250英尺宽10英尺高。
  4. He was a man of medium height.
     他是个中等个子的男子。
  5. ...a garden containing all sorts of trees and shrubs of varying heights and shades.
     种着高低不一色调不同的各种树和灌木的花园
• N-UNCOUNT 高
  Heightis the quality of being tall.
  1. She admits that her height is intimidating for some men.
     她承认自己的高个头会令有些男人却步。
• N-VAR （距离地面或他物的某一）高度
  A particularheightis the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned.
  1. 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，他离灾难始终只有半步之遥。
  2. ...a test in which a 6.3 kilogram weight was dropped on it from a height of 1 metre...
     让6.3公斤的重物从1米高的地方落到它上面的试验
  3. The corridors there were painted chocolate-brown to shoulder height...
     那里的走廊从地面到齐肩高的部分都漆成棕褐色。
  4. The chains were at different heights on the wall.
     挂在墙上的链子高低不齐。
• N-COUNT 高处;高地
  Aheightis a high position or place above the ground.
  1. From a height, it looks like a desert...
     从高处看，它像一片沙漠。
  2. I'm not afraid of heights.
     我不恐高。
  3. ...the Golan Heights.
     戈兰高地
• N-SING 处于顶峰;处于高潮
  When an activity, situation, or organization isatitsheight, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense.
  1. During the early sixth century emigration from Britain to Brittany was at its height...
     6世纪初，从不列颠涌向布列塔尼的移民潮达到了高峰。
  2. At its height Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people...
     布莱奇利园的雇员数在巅峰时期曾达1.2万人。
  3. He was struck down at the height of his career...
     他在事业达到巅峰时病逝了。
  4. At the height of the summer season there can be up to 42,000 people in Benidorm.
     在夏季高峰期，贝尼多姆的人口可达4.2万人。
• N-SING （某一特性）的极致
  If you say that something isthe height ofa particular quality, you are emphasizing that it has that quality to the greatest degree possible.
  1. The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion...
     黑白圆点花纹的紧身连衣裙当时是最时尚的。
  2. I think it's the height of bad manners to be dressed badly...
     我认为衣着不当是最没有礼貌的行为。
  3. This is the height of hooliganism.
     这真是流氓至极。
• N-PLURAL 极度;极点
  If something reaches greatheights, it becomes very extreme or intense.
  1. ...the mid-1980s, when house prices rose to absurd heights...
     房价高得离谱的20世纪80年代中期
  2. Recently the speculation has reached new heights...
     最近猜测又升级了。
  3. One wondered what heights of ecstasy the winner reached.
     人们想知道胜者欣喜若狂到了什么程度。

英英释义

noun

• a high place
  1. they stood on high and observed the countryside
  2. he doesn't like heights
  Synonym:high

双语例句

• I'm not afraid of heights.
  我不恐高。
• In her masterpiece Wuthering Heights, Emily manifests a unique meditation and exploration of human life and destiny.
  艾米莉·勃朗特的代表作《呼啸山庄》充分体现了她对人生和命运的感悟与思考。
• For cartographical purposes heights are necessarily recorded above the geoid ( sea-level).
  就制图的目的来说，所以需记录的高程是高出大地水准面（海平面）的高程。
• And mental power necessary to evolve to new heights.
  和智力发展到了一个新的高度。
• I have been to the heights of my senses.
  我已经点燃我的感官。
• I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic.
  《呼啸山庄》我都看了十几次，我肯定是个浪漫主义者。
• The factors affecting the measured peak heights are considered.
  他研究了待测峰高的影响因素。
• Welcome as it is, this victory raises the economic and political risks to new heights.
  尽管这种胜利值得欢迎，但它同时也将经济与政治风险提高到了一个新高度。
• But in recent years, the cult of the entrepreneur has reached new heights.
  近些年，这种对创业者的崇拜更是达到了新的高峰。
• They come in a wide variety of diameters and heights and architectural styles.
  他们进来各种各样的直径和高度和建筑风格不同的原料。