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- a high pointed piece of rock尖锥形岩石。
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- a small pointed turret built as an ornament on a roof(屋顶上作装饰的)小尖塔; 尖顶。
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- the most successful point; the culmination顶峰, 巅峰, 极点, 顶点:
he had reached the pinnacle of his career.
他已经达到了事业的巅峰。
with obj.
1- poetic/literary set on or as if on a pinnacle〈诗/文〉把…置于尖顶之上。
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- form the culminating point or example of构成…的巅峰, 是…的典范。
派生词
pinnacled
adjective词源
Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin pinnaculum, diminutive of pinna 'wing, point'.