pinnacles是什么意思？

pinnacles

• n. 顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 )，顶点，尖顶，小尖塔；

例句

• At the water's edge numberless rocky pinnacles, and cup - shaped masses like those we had already seen. 水的边缘立著数不尽的石尖块和种种杯形的地物, 就像我们之前看过的一般.
• Five pinnacles stand tall and magnificent. 五座石峰雄伟挺拔.
• On Skye's Trotternish Peninsula, basalt pinnacles loom over the Sound of Raasay. 在斯开岛的特洛登尼许半岛, 玄武岩尖塔俯瞰着拉塞海峡.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  尖锥形石；尖岩
  A pinnacle is a pointed piece of stone or rock that is high above the ground.
  例句
  A walker fell 80ft from a rocky pinnacle. 一位徒步者从一块80英尺高的尖锥形岩石上摔了下来。
• N-COUNT
  顶峰；极点；顶点
  If someone reaches the pinnacle of their career or the pinnacle of a particular area of life, they are at the highest point of it.
  例句
  John Major has reached the pinnacle of British politics... 约翰·梅杰已攀上了英国政界的顶峰。 She was still a screen goddess at the pinnacle of her career. 她仍然是一位处于事业巅峰期的银幕女神。