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formaltheworstmoment, or themomentof leasthopeand leastachievement: 最糟糕的时刻；最消沉的时刻；最失意的时候；最低点 Thedefeatwasthenadirofhercareer.那次失利是她职业生涯的最低谷。 formalthepointat which something is atitslowestvalueorlevel: Atitsnadir in the mid-1980s, thepoundwasalmostatparitywith thedollar. physicsspecializedthepointdirectlybelow aparticularplace, or thelowestpointreachedby aheavenlybody(= anyobjectexistinginspace,especiallyaplanet, or thesun)as ittravelsaround, orappearstotravelaround, anotherbody: Thesun, or anycelestialbody, is said to be atitsnadir when atitslowestpoint. Theopposite,highestpointis said to beitszenith. Comparezenith(HIGHEST POINT)specialized - They are at the nadir oftheir114-yearfootballhistory.
- Thecityexperiencedaneconomicnadir in the 1970s.
- Corebodytemperaturerisesgraduallyfromitsnadir in themiddleof thenightduring slow-wavesleep, the leastactivebrainstate.
- At thewintersolsticeweacknowledgethesunatitsnadir and webeseechitsreturn.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesHigher and lower points of achievement - apex
- apogee
- capstone
- climax
- fulfilment
- glory days
- height
- heyday
- high point
- high tide
- Indian summer
- peak
- plumb
- prime
- rock bottom
- slow burner
- summit
- the acme
- trough
- zenith
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Maximum and minimum Astronomy theworstmoment, or themomentof leasthopeand leastachievement 最糟糕的时刻；最消沉的时刻；最失意的时候；最低点Thedefeatwasthenadirofhercareer.那次失利是她职业生涯的最低谷。 Examplesofnadirnadir However, tomato plants had highly elongated and complex canopies that could not be easily measured from either anadiror horizontal orientation.From theCambridge English Corpus In the run up to the first presidential election under the new constitution in 1965, relations between farmers and the government reached theirnadir.From theCambridge English Corpus The incidence then falls, reaching anadiraround 45 years, and then increases steadily with age.From theCambridge English Corpus Immediately after birth, pulmonary resistance lowers progressively, reaching itsnadirat 3 months.From theCambridge English Corpus Each begins its trajectory headed in a conservative direction, and hits a conservativenadirnear the end of the 1970s.From theCambridge English Corpus The decline reached itsnadirwith the cohort of 1911-16.From theCambridge English Corpus Of the three plants tested, pepper canopies were the easiest to image from thenadirposition, and tomatoes were the most problematic.From theCambridge English Corpus We will soon examine the implications of this extraordinary binary as thenadirof a clinical gaze built upon a principle of exclusions.From theCambridge English Corpus The pharmacokinetic studies reveal, nonetheless, that supplementation with triiodothyronine results in serum levels which have anadirat 24 hours.From theCambridge English Corpus The fireplace is pivotal to the design, under the butterfly roof'snadirand the switchback ramp landing.From theCambridge English Corpus However, with such an approach,nadirimaging of crop canopies is almost impossible.From theCambridge English Corpus Thenadir, observed at 10 minutes, corresponded in time to the maximal increase in extravascular lung water.From theCambridge English Corpus They further demonstrated that, when the wounds were being closed, those parameters of peripheral tissue perfusion reached anadir.From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps this was all the result of thenadirof a depression that could be treated.From theCambridge English Corpus Since the last epidemic in 1991\\2, there has been no large epidemic and differences between the peaks and nadirs have been unclear.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |