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发音：[ˈkʌlmɪˌneɪt]
例句：
- “Culminate” means to reach the highest or final point of something. It’s like when you climb a mountain, and you reach the very top; that’s when your climb culminates.
- You can use “culminate” to describe the most important or exciting part of an event or a process. For example, a graduation ceremony culminates your years of hard work in school, or a big fireworks show might culminate in a grand finale with lots of colorful explosions. So, “culminate” is all about things coming to their most important or exciting moment.
- In the first millennium B.C., states in South China, influenced by the Zhou Dynasty of North China, culminated their expansion, leading to China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C.
- The collapse of SVB drew attention to the entire banking industry and triggered a series of events that ultimately culminated in the compelled sale of Credit Suisse, a bank that had been operating since 1856.
- Since 1995, when the wild-card era was introduced, Major League Baseball’s playoffs have culminated in a World Series matchup between the teams with the best records in the American League and National League on four occasions.
- These mergers are considered to be the events that culminate in the universe’s most powerful releases of gravitational waves, and their common occurrence is essential in comprehending the substantial growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found at the centers of most galaxies.
- The heated debate over the feasibility of employing the SpaceX-designed submarine culminated in Elon Musk’s contentious Twitter remark, in which he referred to a rescuer as a “pedo.”
解释：
- Culminate这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to reach the highest or a climactic or decisive point”这一含义，即“到绝顶/到达极点/达最高潮/使达到顶点”，与climax /reach /accomplish 等单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The program is poised to culminate with the launch of astronauts into deep space aboard NASA’s new, robust rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), ultimately resulting in a return of humans to the Moon.（该计划的巅峰时刻是将宇航员搭乘美国宇航局新的强大火箭太空发射系统（SLS）送入深空，最终促使人类重返月球。）
–Technology - Last week, the project culminated in a presentation day at Nature’s London office, during which a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and leaders in quantum technologies assessed the physicists’ ideas.（上周，该项目在《自然》杂志伦敦办公室的演示日达到高潮，在此期间，一个由经验丰富的企业家和量子技术领导者组成的小组评估了物理学家的想法。）
–Science - During the months preceding the 2004 Athens Olympics, Keller grappled with a prolonged period of sleeplessness and a pervasive sense of malaise, both of which ultimately culminated in what his coach at the time, Jon Urbanchek, described as an “emotional breakdown.”（在2004年雅典奥运会前的几个月里，凯勒一直在与长时间的失眠和普遍的不适感作斗争，这两种情况最终导致了他当时的教练乔恩·厄本切克所描述的“情绪崩溃”。）
–Sports - McCarthy’s year-long endeavors to address the BYD transit issue culminated in a February spending bill, resulting in the removal of the prohibition on federal transit contracts for Chinese-backed companies, a matter that had been ongoing for several months.（麦卡锡为解决比亚迪运输问题所做的长达一年的努力最终导致了2月份的支出法案，导致取消了对中国支持的公司签订联邦运输合同的禁令，此事已经持续了几个月。）
–Business - Marking the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the festival culminates on Saturday with a national sing-along of the national anthem.（为了纪念史密森尼美国国家历史博物馆的星条旗 200 周年，该节日在周六以国歌合唱达到高潮。）
–Arts and Culture
