zenith

源自中古英語 cenyth，源自中世紀拉丁語 cenit，源自阿拉伯語 سَمْت (samt, “方向，小路”)，源自完整形式سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʔs, “头的朝向”)。以-ni-代-m-的情况有时被认为是误读了三个笔画。这个说法确实有道理，但是也可能只是发音模仿导致的。

• (英國，澳大利亞) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈzɛn.ɪθ/
• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈzi.nɪθ/

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zenith (複數 zeniths)

1. (天文學) 天顶 （观测者头顶水平向上的位置）

   反義詞：nadir、perigee

   • 1638 Herbert, Sir Thomas Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique

     The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point […]

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   • 1671–1693: Rev. Thomas Jolly, private notebook; printed in: 1895, Henry Fishwick (editor), The Note Book of the Rev. Thomas Jolly: A.D. 1671–1693. Extracts from the Church Books of Altham and Wymondhouses, 1649–1725. And an Account of the Jolly Family of Standish, Gorton, and Altham, page 44

     In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith.

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   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 180, [1]

     In the east a pillar of cloud reared from horizon to zenith, with a kind of arm outstretched like a threatening colossus.

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2. (天文學) 天顶 （天体在天上达到的最大高度）
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   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter II:

     As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […] 。Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […] , the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.

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3. (引申义) 顶���，顶峰

   Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.

   在洲际锦标赛中夺冠是我生涯的巅峰。

   近義詞：acme、apogee、culmination、pinnacle

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   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 章號 13, 出自 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 第 (please specify |volume=I to V) 卷s, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     It was during those civil troubles […] this aspiring family reached the zenith.

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   • 1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek‎^[2]，第 173 頁:

     "There for a while I enjoyed myself in the zenith of glory and pleasure."

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• antizenith

• azimuth、nadir

• zenith在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en

• Heintz, Hintze