apogee: [17] In its original, literal sense, a planet’s or satellite’s apogee is the point in its orbit at which it is furthest away from the Earth; and this is reflected in the word’s ultimate source, Greek apógaios or apógeios ‘far from the Earth’, formed from the prefix apo- ‘a(chǎn)way’ and gē ‘earth’ (source of English geography, geology, and geometry).
From this was derived a noun, apógaion, which passed into English via Latin apogeum or French apogée. The metaphorical sense ‘culmination’ developed in the later 17th century. The opposite of apogee, perigee [16], contains the Greek prefix peri- ‘a(chǎn)round’, in the sense ‘close around’, and entered English at about the same time as apogee. => geography, perigee
apogee (n.)
"point at which the moon is farthest from the earth," 1590s, from French apogée, from Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, neuter adjective, "away from the earth," a term from Ptolemaic astronomy, from apo "off, away" (see apo-) + gaia/ge "earth" (see Gaia). Adjective forms are apogeal, apogean.
雙語例句
1. The Alliance for Progress reached its apogee during the first half of the decade.
這十年中的前五年是進步聯(lián)盟邁向頂峰的時期。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The orbit of the artificial satellite has an apogee of 200 miles from the earth.
這個人造衛(wèi)星的軌道,其最遠點在離地球200英里的地方.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. Particularly well equipped are the apogee telescopes.
裝備特別好的是遠地點望遠鏡.
來自辭典例句
4. The Grand Design reached its rhetorical apogee.
宏偉計劃達到口頭上的高潮.
來自辭典例句
5. The farthest point on lunar orbit is called apogee.