(1) A balloon floated across the sky.(2) He balloons his cheeks when he is hesitant.(3) He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China.(4) Our expenses had ballooned.
(1) I've ever had time to sculpt a bust of my father and to burnish it.(2) If I'm trapped here. I could always sculpt a statue out of this beam!(3) The sculpt is so diaphanous.
(1) It reached its acme of perfection.(2) Schubert reach the acme of his skill while quite young.(3) His landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty.(4) His calligraphy has reached the acme of perfection.
When something is at the very peak of perfection, reach for this noun from Greek: acme. A brilliant violinist might reach the acme of her career, but eventually she might become unstrung.
vocabulary扩展
This noun referring to the highest point of something might sound comical because it has shown up so often in cartoons as the name of a company, such as the one that makes Wile E. Coyote's contraptions in the old Warner Brothers cartoons. But the word is actually a serious-minded import from Greek. Near synonyms for high points include zenith, summit, pinnacle, apex, and peak, but acme has a special nuance for an ultimate point of perfection.
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柯林斯解释
1[N-SING 单数名词]最高点；顶点；顶峰时刻；顶峰阶段 The acme of something is its highest point of achievement or excellence. [usu the N of n] [FORMAL 正式]His work is considered the acme of cinematic art.他的作品被认为是电影艺术的巅峰之作。