| 释义 |
climax /klīˈmaks/ noun- (of a story, play, piece of music, etc) the most interesting and important or exciting part
- A culmination
- Sexual orgasm
- The arranging of discourse in order of increasing strength (rhetoric)
- Loosely, the last term of the rhetorical arrangement
- The relatively stable culmination of a series of plant and animal communities developing in an area (also climax community)
intransitive verb- To ascend in a climax
- To culminate (in)
- To experience sexual orgasm
transitive verb To bring to a climax ORIGIN: Gr klīmax, -akos a ladder, from klīnein to slope climactˈic or climactˈical adjective Relating to a climax climactˈically adverb |