culminated

英 [ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd]

美 [ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd]

v.  (以某种结果)告终; (在某一点)结束
culminate的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB (以…)结束，告终
  If you say that an activity, process, or series of eventsculminates inorwitha particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
  1. They had an argument, which culminated in Tom getting drunk...
     他们争论了一番，最后汤姆喝醉了。
  2. The celebration of the centenary will culminate with a dinner on November 20.
     百年庆典活动将在11月20日的宴会中宣告结束。

双语例句

• All our efforts culminated in our team winning the race.
  我们的努力最终使我们队赢得了比赛。
• Their marriage culminated their long friendship.
  他们交友多年，有情人终成眷属。
• The dispute culminated last week in a lawsuit against the government.
  上周这一纠纷达到高潮，政府被告上了法庭。
• You have gone from corruption to corruption, and now you have culminated in crime.
  你不断地堕落，最后终于发展到犯罪。
• The Bretton Woods conference culminated in July 1944, while the second world war was far from over.
  布雷顿森林会议是在1944年7月召开的，当时第二次世界大战还远未结束。
• Smith's suicide was the first event in a chain that culminated in exposure of several enormous scandals.
  史密斯的自杀，是一连串事件的第一件。这一连串事件的高潮，是揭发出好几起重大丑闻。
• They had an argument, which culminated in Tom getting drunk
  他们争论了一番，最后汤姆喝醉了。
• A series of financial disasters culminated in the collapse of the country's largest bank.
  一系列金融灾难最终导致该国最大的银行倒闭。
• This culminated in the paradox that a totally planned economy requires a black market.
  这就形成一种荒廖滑稽的局面：完全的计划经济都需要黑市。
• Nineteenth-century Italian nationalism culminated in garibaldi's triumphant creation of an Italian nation state.
  世纪加里波第胜利地创建了意大利联邦，使意大利民族主义达到丁贞峰。