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

• Although the hearing Tencent sport's popularity rocket sun at high noon, but the team of young players Luther-Head of the day is not easy.
  腾讯体育讯虽然目前火箭的人气如日中天，但是球队年轻球员卢瑟-海德的日子并不好过。
• 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。
• We reluctantly left our air-conditioned Hotel and walked oat into the stifling heat of high noon.
  我们不情愿地离开了有空调的宾馆，走进晌午那令人窒息的酷热之中。
• IOC ( until8th high noon) was still attempting until the last minute to let them register, but does not have the result.
  国际奥委会直到最后一分钟（直至8日正午）仍在试图让他们注册，但是并没有成效。
• 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。
• The light is soft and flattering at these times, whereas high noon or flash photography can illuminate a little too much.
  正午的阳光下和使用闪光灯拍出的照片都会过于明亮。
• 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。
• Another theory holds that the brain evolved to vent heat so we could hunt at high noon, when the lions slept.
  另一个理论是，脑部演化增大后可供散热之需，让我们能顶著正午的大太阳，趁狮子睡觉时出猎。
• It may be effected synthetically by the low energy electron precipitation in cusp region, the high latitude plasma convection and the solar radiation, resulted in so called F region magnetic noon phenomena.
  最大值在0900UT（磁中午）附近，这是极隙区软电子沉降、极区等离子体对流和光辐射电离效应等诸多因素综合作用的结果，形成了所谓的磁中午异常。
• 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；