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

• Maximum connections in use: The high-water mark of connections in the pool being in use.
  最大使用连接数：池中正在使用的连接的上限标记。
• This one lives near high-water mark.
  这一种居住在高潮水位的地方。
• In that case, I may have bitten off more than I can chew, especially as we zoom toward Christmas, the high-water mark of the Chinese sales year.
  那样的话，我就得吃不了兜着走，特别是圣诞节很快就到了，这可是一年中中国产品大行其道的时候。
• HWM Used ( KB): High-water mark, or peak, memory that the consumer has used.
  HWMUsed（KB）：该消耗者曾使用的内存的高水位标记或峰值。
• 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。
• This was almost certainly the high-water mark of her career
  这几乎肯定是她事业的巅峰。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。