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Climactic means you have reached a very or important part of an event or story, especially near the end — the peak after everything has been building. The climactic scene of a film is the big fight or the big reveal; the climactic moment of a race is the last stretch. It comes from climax, the high point, plus -ic, formed to look like such as . The word is a little formal. In speech people often just say “the big moment” or “the climax.” It has nothing to do with weather, even though climatic looks almost the same and tricks a lot of readers.
高潮的(故事或事件接近結尾、最緊張最重要的那段)
組成From climax + -ic, on the analogy of words like syntactic.
同家族的字
- climaxthe high point of a story or event; climactic means “of that high point”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
climacticadj/ˌklaɪˈmæk.tɪk/
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Of, pertaining to, or constituting a climax; reaching a decisive moment or point of greatest excitement.
- The race ended in a climactic, neck-and-neck scramble for the finish line.
- ... and the ending (within the last 50-ish pages) is simply incredible; very climactic.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。