climax

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 klīʹ-măks

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. countable,uncountable
    — Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]
  2. An instance of such an ascending series. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]
  3. The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point. countable,uncountable
    — As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.
  4. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly countable,often,uncountable
    — In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity.
  5. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series; The final term of a rhetorical climax. countable,often,rhetoric,uncountable
    — When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.
  6. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series; The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment. countable,often,uncountable
    — The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations[…] are the resultants of certain climatic, geological[…] conditions.
  7. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series; The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm. countable,euphemistic,often,uncountable
    — In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.
动词 v.
  1. To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense). ambitransitive
    — All our memories are burning in time / Like a bittersweet perfume / Can you tell me how a love that's so fine / Could have climaxed in a single afternoon?
  2. To form the climax to; to be the climax of. transitive
    — A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.

词形变化

climaxes plural climaces plural,rare climaxes present,singular,third-person climaxing participle,present climaxed participle,past climaxed past

词汇关系

近义词
auxesis catacosmesis apex
反义词
catacosmesis
衍生词
anticlimax climactic climax community climaxless disclimax microclimax miniclimax monoclimax nonclimax plagioclimax polyclimax postclimax preclimax sexual climax climaxer
相关词
climacteric anadiplosis

词源

词源 1
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
词源 2
From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”).
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