high noon

英 [ˌhaɪ ˈnuːn]

美 [ˌhaɪ ˈnuːn]

n.  中午十二点整; 正午; 最重要的阶段; 决定性时刻

牛津词典

noun

• 中午十二点整；正午
  exactly twelve o'clock in the middle of the day
• 最重要的阶段；决定性时刻
  the most important stage of sth, when sth that will decide the future happens

柯林斯词典

• 同 noon
  High noonmeans the same as noon.
• N-UNCOUNT （新闻用语）紧要关头，关键时刻
  Journalists sometimes usehigh noonto refer to a crisis or event which is likely to decide finally what is going to happen in a conflict or situation.
  1. It looks like high noon for the nation's movie theaters, now we are in the age of the home video.
     我们现在正处在家庭录像大行其道的时代，这对国内的电影院来说似乎是个关乎生死存亡的关键时刻。

英英释义

noun

• the middle of the day
  Synonym:noontwelve noonmiddaynoondaynoontide

双语例句

• It looks like high noon for the nation's movie theaters, now we are in the age of the home video.
  我们现在正处在家庭录像大行其道的时代，这对国内的电影院来说似乎是个关乎生死存亡的关键时刻。
• The Beijing-Shanghai high speed train was delayed again at noon on Tuesday due to a breakdown of the electricity supply.
  周二中午，京沪高铁因为电力供应故障而晚点。
• The diurnal change of transpiration intensity of wheat showed that the low intensity in morning and evening and high at noon, keeping up with the diurnal change of the sap flow of poplars.
  小麦蒸腾强度日进程呈现早晚低、中午高的变化趋势，与杨树蒸腾的日进程一致，胁地段内存在着明显的水分竞争；
• He wrote this book at the high noon of his career.
  他这本书是在他事业的颠峰时期写的。
• So just as in April 2009 the G20 got one step ahead of the global markets and prevented a great depression, so too Europe now needs its own high noon, in which it addresses its three challenges in one swoop.
  因此，正如g20在2009年4月先全球市场而动、避免了一场大萧条一样，欧洲现在也需要有自己的高潮时刻，一举化解自身面临的三大挑战。
• The Sun continues to be in high noon in your chart making others notice you.
  太阳仍处你星盘正中，别人会注意到你的。
• You had to keep moving forward no matter what. Ride into town, gunfight at high noon, then off into the sunset.
  你得一直向前，不管是往什么地方走，驶进小镇，在正午拔枪决斗，然后消逝在夕阳之下。
• Next, the flowering season and sees the cotton wool time cotton and kapok corolla level air temperature to be high, the flowering season the time interval planting density high processing temperature was also noon high, otherwise early, late.
  其次，花期和吐絮期棉花冠层空气温度较高，花期中午时段种植密度高的处理温度也高，早、晚则反之。
• The result showed that the daily variation process of Phragmites communis was fit to the single peak curve, namely high at noon while low at morning and night.
  结果表明：芦苇蒸发散日变化过程为单峰曲线变化，即中午高，早晚低；
• The results showed that the diurnal variation of Choerospondias axillaries transpiration rate appeared in parabola, low in the morning and evening, and high at noon.
  结果表明，蒸腾速率具有明显的早晚低、中午高的日变化特征，但在不同日期蒸腾速率日变化曲线存在一定差异，且在旱季晚间23：30后仍有茎流现象。