high-water mark

英 [ˌhaɪ ˈwɔːtə mɑːk]

美 [ˌhaɪ ˈwɔːtər mɑːrk]

n.  高水位线(海水或洪水所达到的最高水位)

牛津词典

noun

• 高水位线（海水或洪水所达到的最高水位）
  a line or mark showing the highest point that the sea or floodwater has reached
  1. the high-water mark of Parisian fashion (= the most successful time)
     巴黎时装最流行的时期

柯林斯词典

• 高水位线;高潮线
  The high-water markis the level reached in a particular place by the sea at high tide or by a river in flood.
• N-SING （成就的）最高点，最高峰
  Thehigh-water mark ofa process is its highest or most successful stage of achievement.
  1. This was almost certainly the high-water mark of her career...
     这几乎肯定是她事业的巅峰。
  2. This period represented a high water mark for liberal denominations.
     这一时期代表了自由主义教派的全盛时期。

英英释义

noun

• a line marking the highest level reached

双语例句

• This was almost certainly the high-water mark of her career
  这几乎肯定是她事业的巅峰。
• This period represented a high water mark for liberal denominations.
  这一时期代表了自由主义教派的全盛时期。
• Think of a computer game as the high-water mark for interaction.
  想一想交互性最强的电脑游戏。
• Nineteen eighty-two was probably the high-water mark both of the fascination and the frustration with literary theory in this country.
  1982可能是国内文学理论的，魅力和挫折的，高水位线。
• His achievement was the high-water mark of Europe's restoration.
  他的成功就是欧洲复兴的高潮标记。
• At current projections, Bank financing for education in the latest financial year is on track to reach approximately$ 4.4 billion, which would represent another high-water mark for the institution.
  从当前预测结果看，本财年世行教育融资将稳步增加，达到44亿美元左右，表明世行教育融资将再创新高。
• The second quarter is likely to be a high-water mark for the year, economists said.
  第二季很可能是一个高水位的增长，但是经济学家说。
• Updates move through it, and the high-water mark of how much storage you are using depends on how long the recipient has been off-line.
  至于你需要多大的存贮空间，完全取决于数据接收方离线时间的长短。
• Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going& singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same.
  她总是兴高采烈，舌头动个不停&唱呀，笑呀，谁不附和着她，就纠缠不休，真是个又野又坏的小姑娘。
• This assumption in turn rests on three beliefs: that the recent past was a glorious and irreplaceable high-water mark of intellectual attainment;
  这种主张基于三点假设：一是在不久的过去，我们取得了辉煌而不可替代的高水平文化成就；