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

• 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。
• 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；
• After the work was finished, it was high noon by the time we arrived back at our hotel.
  当完成工作返回旅馆时，已是正午了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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 obvious midday depression of Pn of Zanhuang-jujube was mainly caused by the declined mesophyll photosynthetic capacity, but the high temperature>high water vapor pressure difference between leaf and air ( VPD) and stomatal limitation ( Ls) also contributed to it at noon.
  2赞皇大枣光合作用在晴天中午有明显的光合午休，主要原因为细胞的光合活性下降，但中午的高温、高VPD及气孔限制也有一定作用。