height
/haɪt/ 名词 B1中文： 身高、身长、体高、高低
- The distance from the base to the top of something.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). · — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
- The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge. · The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
- The amplitude of a sinusoid.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level. · We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.· I'm afraid of heights.
- A high point.
- The highest point or maximum degree. · She's at the height of her career.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
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“Well, I should like to be a _little_ larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.”
“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was _very_ ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin.
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