high-water mark

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
    — This imposing structure, which not only carries the single track branch line but also the gas main supplying the Forest of Dean area, cost £200,000 when it was built in 1879, and at its highest point is 70ft above the high-water mark.
  2. The peak, apex or acme of something; the maximum level; the furthest or highest point. broadly,figuratively
    — The Gettysburg campaign was the high-water mark of the Confederacy's invasions of the North.

词形变化

high-water marks plural Antonym: low-water mark canonical
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