apogee
英 ['?p?d?i?]
美['?p?d?i]
- n. 最高點，極點；遠(yuǎn)地點
- vt. 位于遠(yuǎn)地點；位于最高點
暢通詞匯GRE
助記提示
1. 遠(yuǎn)離地球。
中文詞源
apogee 遠(yuǎn)地點
前綴apo-, 離開，遠(yuǎn)離。詞根ge, 地，見geology, 地質(zhì)學(xué)。
英文詞源
- apogee
- apogee: [17] In its original, literal sense, a planet’s or satellite’s apogee is the point in its orbit at which it is furthest away from the Earth; and this is reflected in the word’s ultimate source, Greek apógaios or apógeios ‘far from the Earth’, formed from the prefix apo- ‘a(chǎn)way’ and gē ‘earth’ (source of English geography, geology, and geometry).
From this was derived a noun, apógaion, which passed into English via Latin apogeum or French apogée. The metaphorical sense ‘culmination’ developed in the later 17th century. The opposite of apogee, perigee [16], contains the Greek prefix peri- ‘a(chǎn)round’, in the sense ‘close around’, and entered English at about the same time as apogee.
=> geography, perigee - apogee (n.)
- "point at which the moon is farthest from the earth," 1590s, from French apogée, from Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, neuter adjective, "away from the earth," a term from Ptolemaic astronomy, from apo "off, away" (see apo-) + gaia/ge "earth" (see Gaia). Adjective forms are apogeal, apogean.
雙語例句
- 1. The Alliance for Progress reached its apogee during the first half of the decade.
- 這十年中的前五年是進(jìn)步聯(lián)盟邁向頂峰的時期。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The orbit of the artificial satellite has an apogee of 200 miles from the earth.
- 這個人造衛(wèi)星的軌道,其最遠(yuǎn)點在離地球200英里的地方.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. Particularly well equipped are the apogee telescopes.
- 裝備特別好的是遠(yuǎn)地點望遠(yuǎn)鏡.
來自辭典例句
- 4. The Grand Design reached its rhetorical apogee.
- 宏偉計劃達(dá)到口頭上的高潮.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The farthest point on lunar orbit is called apogee.
- 而繞月軌道里地球最遠(yuǎn)的點則為遠(yuǎn)地點.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)