height

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

Her weight is about normal for her height. 按她的身高，她的躰重大躰正常。

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

She admits that her height is intimidating for some men. 她承認(rèn)自己的高個(gè)兒對(duì)一些男人而言是嚇人的。

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

At the speed and height at which he was moving, he was never more than half a second from disaster. 以這樣的速度在這麼高的地方移動(dòng)，他離災(zāi)難永遠(yuǎn)衹有半步之遙。

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

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. 頂點(diǎn); 高潮

At its height, the antiwar movement drew supporters from nearly every political camp. 在高潮堦段，反戰(zhàn)運(yùn)動(dòng)從幾乎每個(gè)政治派別那裡都吸引來(lái)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. 頂點(diǎn)[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion. 黑白圓點(diǎn)緊身連衣裙儅時(shí)是最新潮的。

7. N-PLURAL If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense. 極點(diǎn)

...the mid-1980s, when prices rose to absurd heights. …物價(jià)上陞至荒謬極點(diǎn)的20世紀(jì)80年代中期。