Definition of high in English:

high

adjective hʌɪhaɪ

1Of great vertical extent.
高的
the top of a high mountain
高山之巅。
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the new policy is a little late for the downtown area, which is already over-crowded with high buildings, there is still a lot the city can do to improve the situation.
- Climatic effects are accentuated on the high elevations of these mountain ranges.
- Climbing and trekking are obvious income sources for countries endowed with high mountain ranges.
- In the centre of the 10 km deep crater is a mountain almost as high as Mount Everest.
- The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains.
- It was a place untouched by man, for the mountain was far too high, and far too treacherous.
- It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
- He said policing the gardens was difficult as they were secluded and surrounded by a high hedge and fence.
- The open area is secured by high boarding and is used for car parking.
- Sherpas, well known as mountain guides and porters, live in the high mountains of E. Nepal.
- Crystal clear streams flow down from the high mountains into the Datong River.
- Veteran climbers bemoan the increasing commercialisation of high peaks such as Everest and K2.
- In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches.
- They are planning to install high fences and replace the smashed windows, which have been boarded up.
- To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow.
- It's the one thing that will keep you going when that mountain seems just too high to climb.
- The conditions in the high mountains were hard and four of our group turned back.
- Watch the skies if you happen to be walking near any high buildings.
- Alice Springs is surrounded by high black mountains, similar to the mountains of Mecca.
- Old rocks predominate and high hills and mountains are more common.
Synonyms
tall, lofty, towering, soaring, elevated, giant, big
multistorey, high-rise, sky-scraping
1. 1.1 (after a measurement and in questions) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom.
  （用在量度单位之后，也用于问句）（测量从上到下的特定距离）…高度的
  a tree forty feet high
  一棵40英尺高的树。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They say the company's proposal to build a 7m high building on the site, which backs on to a number of homes in Gilhams Avenue, is unnecessary and intrusive.
  The fox cleared a six-foot high fence to get among the chickens and would have killed them all had it not been disturbed.
  ‘How high is it?’ asked Holmes. ‘It is just over a metre high.’
  On the west side of the rock is a vertical wall about 8m high, covered in white and orange anemones.
  The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet.
  Its ceilings are barely five feet high, because the only people who worked there were child labourers.
  North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov said the glacier was 150m high.
  The project aims to build 165 wind turbines, 400 feet high, in the hills above Tregaron.
  The alley was a dead end; the granite wall at the end was at least twelve feet high.
  Her tomato plants are more than four feet high and have given us a constant supply of tomatoes all summer.
  The two-and-a-half tonne boat was lowered down a sheer cliff 200 ft high.
  The New Year's Day wave passed just under the 30-metre high platform of the North Alwyn rig.
  It is only dangerous if you attempt to climb up on to the wall, which he seems to forget is about five feet high!
  Because of the extreme snow that had hit the region this winter, the snow was five feet high.
  Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs.
  Police closed the promenade in Blackpool to motorists as waves dozens of feet high pounded the seafront.
  In the middle of the field there was a square-shaped, flat-roofed building, about eight feet high.
  The structure was mounted between two walls, each 70 feet long and 50 feet high.
  He was not able to stand up in the space, which was about three feet six inches high.
  The tide was in, and the breakers were a good twenty to thirty feet high when they hit the harbour wall.
2. 1.2 Far above ground, sea level, or another point of reference.
  远离地面（海面或另一参照点）的
  a palace high up on a hill
  高据山头的宫殿。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Remember that the overland trip will help you acclimatize to the high altitude.
  You enter a long narrow main room with a shimmering disco ball hanging from a high ceiling.
  Rare species of bird inhabit the higher branches of the trees.
  It's another gorgeous day. There were some high cirrus clouds earlier and it looks like they're coming back, but, for the most part, it's just been beautiful.
  At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized.
  Because of its high altitude, it is typically one of the first Scottish roads to be closed during bad winter weather.
  In common with the living room, the dining area has a high ceiling and a fireplace.
  It's more likely to occur if you're exercising in hot weather or at a high altitude.
  Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert.
  I didn't get a hint of back-ache from the driving seat, or from pulling gear in and out of the high luggage area.
  Few people have ever survived such a serious injury at such high altitude.
  Alpine plants are those that are naturally found in high altitudes.
  The speakers will be installed throughout the station in inaccessible or high areas to stop them being vandalised.
  The window was much too high up for her to reach, but unlike the one in the bathroom, it was large enough for her to squeeze through.
  This area has a wonderfully high ceiling and gets plenty of natural light through a large window and patio doors.
  Filming at high altitude in the Peruvian Andes wasn't always much fun.
  To the left of the reception hall is the drawing room with an attractive period fireplace, original wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows.
  Most sports utility vehicles are so high off the ground that your dog has to be virtually airborne or a St Bernard to be able to climb in.
  Ben knew Joe had a fear of heights, and the ledge was high off the ground.
  The plant is easy to propagate, and tolerates poor soil, high altitudes, and harsh climates.
  Synonyms
  in the air, in the sky, high up, up, up above, on high, overhead, above
3. 1.3 Extending above the normal level.
  （比正常或平均水平）高的
  a round face with a high forehead
  高额圆脸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dark curls, cropped close to his skull, give way to a high forehead and a strong jaw.
  Once in bog at the bottom of the coulee, one can see that the high grass is covered with grey silt.
  Beads of sweat formed on his high forehead.
  Michelle says that really I should have a fringe because I have a high forehead.
  Light brown hair was brushed back from a high forehead except for a few locks which fell forward.
  Possessing a high forehead and pale skin was the most important factor of Renaissance beauty.
  He had dark red hair and rather elven looking features - high cheekbones, sharp chin.
  Elsie was a petite woman with thick waves of dark hair and a high forehead.
  His hair was receding at the front and he had a high forehead.
  He was more curious about the decorated headband crowning the man's high forehead.
  The face is pale and perhaps slightly unearthly, with a high forehead sharply defined against red-gold hair.
  She wore her hair in a high bun and even applied a little kohl around her eyes and some red rouge on her cheeks and lips.
  Crossing his legs in front of him, he leans back against the high pillows and closes his eyes.
  Her broad flat forehead and high cheekbones catch the light from the windows behind them.
  The forehead is high and serious, and the hair, which one feels to be fine and thick and fair, drawn off it and lying close like a cap.
  There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin.
  Councillors in Melksham have backed a hairdresser's call for action over a dangerous high pavement in the town.
  In most patients with a high forehead, or in males with a receding hairline, the incision is placed at the frontal hairline.
  She's either not made up or has applied very subtle cosmetics to her high forehead and cute snub nose.
  The grass right now is thick and high, but there are rumours it's going to be cut down.
4. 1.4attributive (of an area) inland and well above sea level.
  （地域或地形）内陆高地
  high prairies
  高地草原。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico, while a lighter-built species (Arctodus pristinus) with smaller teeth inhabited the more heavily wooded Atlantic coastal region.
  The traditional territory contains a diversity of landscapes with rugged mountains and numerous valleys and high prairies.
5. 1.5attributive Performed at, to, or from a considerable height.
  在（或至、从）高处
  high diving
  高台跳水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The leaps and jumps were high and spectacular to watch, yet the dancers made it appear effortless.
  Southall was finally booked for his second late and high lunge on the Norwegian Riise inside five minutes.
  Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting.
  In terms of risk, this is on a par with high diving into a piranha pool.
6. 1.6 (of latitude) close to 90°; near the North or South Pole.
  （纬度）接近90°的；南北极附近的
  high southern latitudes
  接近南极的高纬度地区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is found in the recently glaciated areas of the Northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere.
  The theory says the high latitudes should warm up more than the lower latitudes.
  Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes.
  These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins.
  They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator.
2Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity.
（数量、大小或强度）大（或高）的，大（或高）于正常的
a high temperature
高温。
sweets are very high in calories
糖果与巧克力富含热量。
Example sentencesExamples
- The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand.
- Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter and the oil in a frying pan, add the mushrooms and fry over a high heat until golden brown.
- Cashews are high in protein and carbohydrate as well as being rich in vitamin A.
- My personal opinion on the speed limits of this country is that they are too high for residential areas.
- Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds.
- He added that staff would be asked to work extra hours to cope with the high volume of business during the festive period.
- This area has high unemployment, and mortality is above the national average.
- Although he was earning a relatively high salary, he found the job extremely stressful.
- This three-bedroom period house has been extended and renovated to a very high standard.
- Educational standards in the area are high, particularly among younger people.
- Many of us eat to excess and eat too many foods with a high sugar content.
- But one of the factors that made cancer treatment expensive was the high cost of the drugs.
- He said the area had a high percentage of children under four, and many parents were without family support.
- As a result, many people may find they are actually over-insured and paying unnecessarily high premiums.
- The chilly weather and high wind affected his performance, according to Zhang.
- Waves on Puget Sound were so high that day that only four crew members could row.
- Chickpeas are exceptionally high in protein and very low in fat, making them an ideal food.
- This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices.
- Staff are also expressing concerns over job security, high workloads and excessive hours.
- The firm says demand for industrial property from purchasers in the West Yorkshire area is high.
Synonyms
inflated, excessive, unreasonable, overpriced, sky-high, unduly expensive, dear, costly, top, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive
British over the odds
informal steep, stiff, pricey, over the top, OTT, criminal
strong, powerful, violent, intense, extreme, forceful, sharp, stiff
blustery, gusty, stormy, squally, tempestuous, turbulent
rare boisterous
1. 2.1 Of large numerical or monetary value.
  （数值或价值）高（或大）的
  they had been playing for high stakes
  他们一直在豪赌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was one of the most daring missions of the Second World War - and the stakes had never been higher.
  But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card.
  It seems to me that many in the U.S. don't quite appreciate how high the stakes are.
  The first deal is decided between two opponents who each cut the cards - whoever cuts the higher card has the slight advantage of dealing first.
  You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost.
  The only difference is the stakes are significantly higher.
2. 2.2 Very favourable.
  良好的，赞许的，有利的
  she had no very high opinion of men
  她对男人没什么好评价。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He does not hold the pastor in high regard and often considers his homilies burdensome.
  Self-esteem means having a high opinion of ourselves regardless of what we may or may not have done to earn it.
  We cannot have too low an opinion of ourselves or too high an opinion of Christ.
  The media baron has always had a high opinion of himself and a low one of many others.
  Mr Blass is looking forward to the operation being fully up and running in Sligo, an area he holds in high esteem.
  Hearing it again after years only confirmed my high opinion of the score.
  I have, as you know, an extremely high regard for the men and women in the Australian Defence Force.
  I am delighted he has been so impressed by our care and has such a high opinion of our staff.
  The fact that Britain's No 2 has a ferocious serve and a high opinion of his own abilities only makes matters worse.
  I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly.
  People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband.
  but, in common with other members of the family, he had a very high opinion of himself.
  Many people close to the club have a high opinion of him and we are quickly finding out why.
  You have always said you wanted to work with Sean Penn, because you had a very high opinion of him.
  The police are not held in high regard in some areas and their self-esteem and image have been damaged.
  The selectors have got a high opinion of Justin Marshall as a person and as a player.
  It did not take long for the cricketing community to realise why Cronje was admired and held in high esteem.
  I hold you in very high esteem, and have held you in very high esteem throughout that period.
  If you are in Government you appoint people whom you can work with, and whom you have a high opinion of.
  Like many people he doesn't have a very high opinion of them claiming that they were put on this planet to make solicitors look good!
  Synonyms
  favourable, good, positive, approving, admiring, complimentary, commendatory, appreciative, flattering, glowing, adulatory, approbatory, rapturous, full of praise
  rare panegyrical, acclamatory, laudative, encomiastical
3. 2.3 Extreme in religious or political views.
  （宗教或政治观点）极端的，偏激的
  a man of high Tory opinions
  持极端保守观点的人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians.
  The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles.
4. 2.4 (of a period or movement) at its peak.
  （时期或运动）在顶点的
  high summer
  盛夏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The leaves had lost the fresh green of early summer and taken on the darker bronzy tinge of high summer.
  This is one of the best spots in the country, but it's cold even in high summer.
  You can spot all these features from your cliff path when the water is clear during high summer.
  It gets so crowded here in high summer that there's often no room to sit down, let alone lay out a towel.
  As it progresses the music evokes images of South Sea islands in balmy high summer.
  The low winter sun is much more favourable for good photography than high summer brilliance.
  The existing public lavatory is used by 600 people a day in high summer.
  Spain's Balearic islands are now among the in places to see and be seen in high summer.
  The human body was the main preoccupation of High Renaissance artists and they often depicted it nude.
  If succulent plants are kept out in the high summer months then they get affected.
  In the blistering heat of high summer, it is literally too hot for study and so youngsters get a couple of months off.
  This is Yorkshire in high summer, so it's pouring with rain this morning.
  Moving into high summer, there are literally dozens of plants to choose from.
  The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer.
  It seems like only a fortnight ago it was high summer - hot sweaty summer - but now all of a sudden it's autumn.
  It was high summer when I was there and as the days rolled on and flawless blue sky followed flawless blue sky, it began to get a little boring.
  Don't go to Spain in high summer as it becomes very hot, especially away from coastal breezes.
  The air had been washed down, sweeping away the usual mist that hangs over the Greek Islands in high summer.
  The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance.
  It was high summer, and the grass shone green even as the powerful winds caused it to ripple and shimmer.
3Great in rank, status, or importance.
（等级或地位）高级的，重要的
both held high office under Lloyd George
两位都在劳合·乔治手下任高级职务。
financial security is high on your list of priorities
金融安全列在你优先考虑事项的最前面。
Example sentencesExamples
- He also achieved a high position in the Academy at Geneva, becoming its rector.
- What is it like for a woman in Taiwan to rise to such a high position, and what challenges have you faced?
- At that point in time, the impending smoking ban and the effect it would have on drink sales were high on the agenda.
- Finding a permanent home for the campus is high on the university's agenda.
- Respect for the preservation of the environment was high on his sense of priorities.
- None of his are thought through, a dangerous fault for someone so high in Government.
- Politics is much more of a closed shop in Britain and Australia than it is in the US. You have to have go through a certain lengthy career path in the party and parliament before standing for any high office.
- Lydon has much to offer, but Woodward elevated him to high office incredibly early in his coaching career.
- Robert Altman has definitely made better films, but this one must rank high on the list.
- We have many women in high positions in the Church especially working in parishes.
- He stressed that other high positions in the organisation are filled by those committed to conservation.
- Arthur Balfour unexpectedly rewarded him by appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer, a higher office than he had ever received under the Liberals or the Lloyd George coalition.
- Getting water is high on everyone's list of priorities and takes up a good part of a resident's time.
- Press conferences are usually reserved for those higher in the chain of command.
- For someone in such a high position to dismiss and discount this argument is really worrying.
- Road traffic accident reduction is a high priority for North Yorkshire firefighters and our partners.
- In addition to housing and employment, education and tackling crime are also high on their agenda.
- He said this situation had put the issue of imports very high on the agenda.
- The escalating problem of unruly, yobbish behaviour is now high on the agenda for politicians of all persuasions.
- Frank just happened to have a family member who had a high position in Microsoft.
Synonyms
high-ranking, high-level, leading, top, top-level, prominent, eminent, pre-eminent, foremost, senior, influential, distinguished, powerful, important, elevated, notable, principal, prime, premier, chief, main, upper, ruling, exalted, illustrious
North American ranking
informal top-notch
1. 3.1 Ranking above others of the same kind.
  最佳的，出类拔萃的
  the last High King of Ireland
  最后一位卓越的爱尔兰国王。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002.
  The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country.
2. 3.2 Morally or culturally superior.
  高尚的，崇高的；高雅的
  blurring the distinctions between high art and popular art
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Czechs are nothing if not talented musicians with a deep love of fine culture and high art.
  The classics had a profound presence not only in the high culture, but in the inner lives of educated persons.
  Chapter 7 looks at the part that the Bible has played in high and popular culture.
  It would have been the kiss of death for his career - but if he really was motivated by high principles then at least he would know he had done the right thing.
  What his parents lacked in high culture, they made up for in political principles.
  Persian was the court language and the language of literature and of high culture.
  Once realized, this consciousness leads to an awareness of something higher than physical needs, emotional desires, and survival demands dictated by hormones or organs.
  Her films and writings establish an exchange between high and popular culture, art and commerce.
  One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture.
  This was a right old mish-mash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre.
  While he argues that the opposition of high and low art is wrong, he does so only because he doesn't know what high art is in the first place.
  Literature was no exception, and Shakespeare was eagerly received as the epitome of high culture.
  An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin.
  Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read.
  It may not have been high art, but for sheer singalong spectacle and professionalism it was unbeatable.
  Lisa and I are off for an afternoon of high culture at the theatre.
  The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture.
  The new Millennium wing at the National Gallery represents the marriage of high ideals and fine art.
  During this period the gap between most forms of high culture and popular culture remained wide.
  Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture.
  Synonyms
  high-minded, noble-minded, lofty, moral, ethical, honourable, admirable, upright, principled, honest, virtuous, righteous
  excellent, outstanding, exemplary, exceptional, admirable, fine, great, good, very good, first-class, first-rate, superior, superlative, superb, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, meritorious, blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable, perfect, unequalled, unparalleled
  informal tip-top, A1, top-notch
  rare applaudable
4(of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range.
（声音或音符）高音的
a high, squeaky voice
高而尖的声音。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm.
- The sound of the drill is high and shrill and shatters the silence in my room.
- A high sing-song voice rang from the kitchen and a woman appeared.
- The best singers started their song at a low pitch to suit the range with which their voices are able to cope, and did not try songs which required them to reach high notes.
- The intro was played softly and her voice was high and sweet, singing the melody.
- A high whining sound came from the other end, and he held the phone away from his ear, rolling his eyes and grimacing.
- She has this really high shrill voice that makes me cringe every time she speaks.
- ‘You're hurt,’ she said in her high childish voice.
- All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch.
- Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity.
- As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter.
- Did you know that as human ears age, they lose the ability to pick up high pitches?
Synonyms
high-pitched, high-frequency, soprano, treble, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating
1. 4.1 (of a singer or instrument) producing notes of relatively high pitch.
  （歌手或乐器）音调高的
  a high soprano voice
  女高音的高嗓音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano.
  The G clef is used for the upper staff of keyboard music, the soprano voice, and the high instruments (e.g. violin or flute).
  He wrote several so-called ‘concert’ arias, tailor-made for Aloysia's astonishing high soprano.
  His energy in concert was quite inspiring, each song found him stomping about the stage, singing in a high tenor with sparse instrumentation provided by an acoustic guitar.
5informal predicative Feeling euphoric, especially from the effects of drugs or alcohol.
she wasn't tipsy, just a little high
她没醉，只是有点兴奋。
some of them were high on Ecstasy
他们中有些人已经因酒精和摇头丸而过度兴奋了。
Example sentencesExamples
- They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs.
- During the three-week trial the jury heard Giles, 19, was high on drink and drugs at the time of the attack.
- During some of these incidents he admitted to being high on heroin and cocaine.
- The defence lawyer noted that he was high on crack cocaine at the time of the stabbing.
- In fact, as the hours wore on, I found I was feeling charged and a little high with all the chocolate.
- He admitted that he had no idea what he was doing on the day of the murders because he was so high on drugs.
- It was also alleged he rang Miss A in the early hours telling her he was high on cocaine and that he wanted to perform a sex act with her.
- This witness also admitted to being high on crack cocaine, marijuana and beer the night of the killing.
- Once again a boorish minority, high on drugs or drink, is to blame.
- He used to come home high on marijuana and my little sisters were seeing him like that, so I have seen what drugs can lead to.
- I could tell that she had slept hardly at all during the day, she was probably still high from the night before.
- He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish.
- This wasn't the boy who seemed to be high on opium every time I met him.
- Maybe I am still high from all the joints I smoked earlier this evening.
- It was 2001 when Joe was physically attacked by a passenger he believes was high on drugs.
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, on drugs, drugged, stupefied, befuddled, delirious, hallucinating
informal on a high, stoned, turned on, on a trip, tripping, hyped up, freaked out, spaced out, zonked, wasted, wrecked, high as a kite, off one's head, out of one's mind, flying, charged up
North American informal blitzed, ripped
US informal jacked
6predicative (especially of food) unpleasantly strong-smelling because beginning to go bad.
（味道）刺鼻的，臭的（尤指食物开始变坏）
it's a type of preserved butter, used for cooking, smells a little high
Example sentencesExamples
- The cheese was rather high, and tended to crumble when we opened the tin, but it was quite edible.
Synonyms
gamy, smelly, strong-smelling
1. 6.1 (of game) slightly decomposed and so ready to cook.
  （野味）略微变质得马上煮食的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mine are hung for no more than 2 or 3 days especially over the last few years what with the milder winters. Its a question of taste and how high you like your bird.
  The meat was quite high with complex strong flavours, which is just the way I like it.
  Synonyms
  gamy, smelly, strong-smelling
7Phonetics
(of a vowel) produced with the tongue relatively near the palate.
〔语音〕（元音）舌位高的
Example sentencesExamples
- New York pronunciation has a long, tense, very round vowel in words like caught, and a long, tense, relatively high vowel in words such as cab.
- The symbol ‘i’ in IPA (as in most orthographies) denotes a high front vowel.

noun hʌɪhaɪ

1A high point, level, or figure.
高点，高水平，高数字
commodity prices were at a rare high
商品价格之高确乎少有。
Example sentencesExamples
- With the summer heat hitting new highs and the air conditioner not functioning due to power restrictions, I decided that we would take a little expedition to the zoo.
- Gasoline prices continue to hit record highs and AAA says the national average for a gallon of self-serve regular now is $2.41.
- But over the week the Japanese yen leapt to new three-year highs of around Y110.90 against the dollar, signalling that policy may indeed have changed after all.
- The IPCC have said that the level of other greenhouse gases is also at an all time high.
- Jiangxi Province in East China has been hot since the beginning of July, with highs over 37 degrees Celsius almost every day.
- The banks' gloomy predictions come after the FTSE100 reached new highs in 2003 and its highest level since August 2002.
- With gasoline hitting new highs, motorists have been doing plenty of grousing at the pumps.
- Temperatures averaged almost 10 degrees above normal with highs reaching the low-to-mid nineties.
- The bureau said Monday was the hottest day of the year so far, with a record high of 37.8?
- This is a big worry, because mortgage debt and consumer credit figures keep hitting new highs every month.
- Similarly, by early January, the tech stocks that had led the Nasdaq to record levels had plummeted 35 percent from their December highs.
- However, economists believe the euro will continue to reach new highs against both the dollar and sterling in the coming months.
- Coogan's comments follow the publication of figures last week which showed that mortgage lending and levels of personal debt had reached all-time highs.
- In Finland, sea levels reached record highs, cutting off several coastal roads, but no major damage was reported.
- The jobless figures rose in every state except Western Australia, reaching highs of 9 percent in Queensland and 9.2 percent in Tasmania.
- However, with borrowing and debt levels at record highs, buoyancy in these areas could still crumble rapidly if the general view of the economy changes for the worse.
- Everyone knows about oil, but wholesale coal prices rose by 40% last year and metal prices, from copper to platinum, still regularly hit new highs.
- Records tumbled across Yorkshire yesterday as schools and colleges in the region saw A-level scores hit new highs.
- Equally, the proportion undertaking further study is at a record high.
- In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued.
Synonyms
high level, high point, record level, peak, record, high water mark
top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, apotheosis, culmination, climax, height, summit
1. 1.1 A high-frequency sound or musical note.
  高音，高音符
  piercing highs and subterranean lows
  Example sentencesExamples
  From the mellow, dark low register to brilliant instrumental highs, his sound is beautiful - like musical crystal.
  Despite the electronics, the music is rather flat and uniform, lacking highs, lows and climaxes.
  I wanted to use something with plenty of highs and lows, and good use of bass.
  Excellent move, because the iRiver's audio quality remains one of the best on the market, with eardrum-busting bass notes or ethereal highs.
  The Harman / Kardon speakers produce deep, luscious bass and clear, crisp singing highs.
  Quite frankly I was pretty surprised that it sounded pretty good in both music and DVD's, with nice highs even without a single tweeter.
  Children are particularly sensitive to highs and lows, as well as pitch duration.
  The Scandinavian sound tends to be clean and full, with aching highs and a harmony that carries in both channels of stereo in a unique way.
  She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song.
  Like other Bose speaker products, its sound is huge, with tight, crispy highs and deep clean lows.
2. 1.2 A high power setting.
  强动力（设置），强挡
  the vent blower was on high
  通风口的吹风机开了强挡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A similar phenomenon occurs when you have a heater set on high in an overheated room with all the windows and doors closed.
  If you are griddling, preheat your ridged grill pan on high for five minutes.
  When the rice is cooked, microwave the cabbage on high for two to three minutes or until soft.
  Put the element on high until the water in the bottom pot is boiling, then turn down to medium.
  I lie in bed, clad in shorts and a tank top, with the fan on high and all the windows open.
3. 1.3 An area of high barometric pressure; an anticyclone.
  高气压区；高气压
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds.
  These intermittent highs effectively separate the northwestern trough from the deep-water regions of the Hatton-Rockall and Iceland Basins to the west.
  The high may move northward to cover Scotland or stay stuck just south of the UK.
4. 1.4 Top gear in a motor vehicle.
  （机动车辆的）高速挡
  the system lets you shift into 4WD high
  Example sentencesExamples
  While Sullivan hasn't reached Mikita and Savard's heights, he has recorded career highs in goals and points in this, his second season with the Hawks.
2A notably happy or successful moment.
（显著的）幸福时刻，成功时刻
the highs and lows of life
人生的苦乐。
Example sentencesExamples
- It has been a long year for the Chancellor, one in which he has seen a number of highs, notably the birth of his son.
- It was a time of occasional highs and many lows - court appearances, television interviews, press conferences, parliamentary lobbies.
- She knows more about racing's highs and lows than anyone, having overcome all manner of hurdles to establish herself at the top of the sport.
- He believed that without lows you couldn't experience highs, and that by getting through our problems together, our relationship was strengthened.
- The crash was one of the lows in a career that has had many highs, notably winning the World Under-21 title in 1993.
- From his days as an amateur with the late Gordon Richards in the early 1970s, O'Neill has experienced dramatic highs and lows.
- It's important to remember that we all experience highs and lows in our fitness programs; it's how you deal with them that matters most.
- Like many players, I've experienced the highs and lows which go hand-in-hand with having a career in professional football.
- The awards give students the opportunity to experience the emotional highs and lows and the practicalities of a live performance.
- Three years of touring around America and experiencing the highs and lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle followed, with Mankowitz in effect becoming the seventh member of the band.
- In more than a quarter of a century of training, Luca Cumani has enjoyed many highs, including success in two Epsom Derbys, but also his fair share of lows.
- All in all, then, a talented performer with some notable career highs.
- From the depths of despair to the ecstatic highs, the Olympics coverage on the BBC has provided us with a roller coaster of emotions bringing out the best in live television over the last couple of weeks.
- Married in 1949 to a very successful businessman in India, she has experienced many highs and lows in her life.
- Most of these players had never experienced emotional highs and lows of such a magnitude in such a close time period.
- John will talk about his own background and experience, sharing the highs and lows of running a successful business.
- No candidate is more emotionally prepared for the exhilarating highs and debilitating lows of a presidential marathon.
- The controversial 27-year-old has suffered an all too familiar emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.
- As well as the highs, Sheerin has experienced enough of life's lows to ensure he appreciates all that comes his way.
- Jacklin's life has been a roller-coaster of emotions, full of highs and lows.
Synonyms
ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight
1. 2.1informal A state of high spirits or euphoria.
  〈非正式〉（尤指毒品引起的）快感，兴奋（状态）
  if the stable is doing well then everybody's on a high
  如果这群赛马跑得好的话，那就人人飘飘欲仙了。
  golf provides him with an adrenalin high
  Example sentencesExamples
  She claims she now has more energy and inspiration, and is on a permanent natural high.
  All the tension and knots just disappeared and I was on a high for the rest of the day.
  If you are an adrenalin junkie, you can rest assured that the highs you get from a workout with this car will never be beaten by anything else with four wheels and a licence plate.
  The audience were whipped up into a frenzy of emotion that sent everyone home on a high.
  He neither drinks, nor smokes, preferring transcendental meditation to the highs attained through substance abuse.
  Then the homecoming we got in Galway, you'd be on a high for a week after it.
  He's gone for a lot of French players but French football is on a real high at the moment.
  It could have been better, but thankfully we finished on a high by winning the FA Cup.
  Most of the pilots were still on a high from the manner of the victory.
  Fortunately, I was on a high by now, and energy was pouring out of me.
  Cannabis does alter your mind. It can make you more irritable, or sometimes depress you, or sometimes put you on a high.
  There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high.
  I want to be clean and healthy and fit for my kids and have normal highs that aren't due to cocaine.
  Two trophies in his first six months in charge ensured the club ended last season on a high.
  One day she would be depressed and then the next day she would be on a high.
  With a World Cup just months away, England are determined to finish this Six Nations' campaign on a high.
  The neurotransmitter plays a major role in drug-induced highs and in addiction.
  By the end of the performance I'm absolutely starving and on a real adrenaline high.
  Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time.
  I was on a high for the rest of the night, and it lasted until the next day.
  Synonyms
  ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine/seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight
  excited, overexcited, hysterical, wild with excitement, frenzied
  informal blissed out, over the moon, on top of the world
  North American informal wigged out
  Australian/New Zealand informal wrapped
  rare corybantic
3North American informal High school.
〈非正式，主北美〉中学
I go to junior high
我上初中。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was supposed to be going into my sophomore year with all the friends that I had made last year in junior high.
- The soccer conversation ended as we arrived at the school parking lot of Clemington High.
- From the day he and I had met in the fifth or sixth grade, up until our final two years in junior high, we had both been fairly close and good friends.
- I took a couple of deep breaths, preparing myself for yet another day at Green County High, and then took off for my Algebra class.
- I was in the last year of primary school while my sister was in junior high.
- I grabbed his hand, wanting to listen to the song I had listened to back in junior high.
- I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger.
- I have been a diabetic since junior high and had to drink sissy diet sodas for years.
- Miller is not a musician, but he tried the trombone for one semester in junior high.
- She grew up on the North Shore, and met Billy Davie when she was still in junior high.
- Blake stopped the car in front of the junior high and Andy waved at some friends.
- She had secretly liked him since junior high and now she got to pretend to be with him.
- I've had this pen name since junior high, and it doesn't do a whole lot for me anymore.
- When we got to the top we would both talk about how life would be like when we were in junior high.
- And these were girls that Haylie had grown up with, in middle school and junior high.
- Back in junior high, the mall was the place where my friends and I spent most of our free time.
- He had gone to my elementary school, moved on to junior high, and I never saw him again.
- It's nothing for him to stop by a class room and spend an hour with kids at a local junior high.
- He has a new family and a job as head janitor in a junior high, but the past isn't through with him yet.
- We're both adults now and maybe formed a different idea about ourselves from who we were in junior high.

adverb hʌɪhaɪ

1At or to a considerable or specified height.
在（或向）高处（或高度）
the sculpture stood about five feet high
这雕塑约5英尺高。
a dish piled high with baked beans
Example sentencesExamples
- Exploding gas tanks launched huge fireballs and black plumes of smoke high into the air.
- The cheap seats way up high are packed and, in the orchestra, there are just a few empties.
- Our main focus is on promoting young talent and we are developing this sponsorship to recognise individuals who aim high and work hard.
- At last they stopped to eat and rest again, as the sun reached its zenith high above.
- I was a little concerned that I would pitch my material too high or too low.
- Mr Bond said that before the council collected the mess this week it was piled five feet high against the wall of the flats.
- If you prefer the sun head to North Costa Blanca in Spain where, set high on a hill in the Jalon valley is a four bedroom villa with its own swimming pool and sun terrace just an hour from Alicante airport.
- But some governments placed it higher on their agendas than others.
- The shade in which they had been resting was rapidly disappearing as the sun rose high into the sky.
- Across the room stood a tower of vinyl albums stacked about 14 feet high.
- Dishes from yesterday's dinner are piled high in the sink.
- The decor is sparse and dated, but staff are friendly and keen to explain the different dishes. There is no wait service - you just grab a tray and pile it high.
- The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky and a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains.
- Any visit to his house was likely to involve a discussion about the placing of a sculpture or just how high on the wall a tapestry should hang.
- So, despite these edicts, new apartment houses continued to be built five or six storeys high.
- The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree.
- All of the larger lakes in Gran Canaria are situated high up in the mountains.
- The circular table in his office is piled high with newspapers and books that he intends to read if only he could find the time.
- In one corner of the room sat a desk and chair, both made of maple wood and piled high with various papers.
- Some athletes take steroids in the hopes that they will improve their ability to run faster, hit farther, lift heavier weights, jump higher, or have more endurance.
- He was balding, pudgy, pale and had his pants hitched up a little too high on his waist.
- Around ten minutes to three I observe a plane flying high overhead and heading out towards the Atlantic.
Synonyms
at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude
in the air, in the sky, on high, aloft, overhead, above one's head, over one's head
2Highly.
高（高）地
he ranked high among the pioneers of chemical technology
在20世纪化学技术的先驱中他名列前茅。
Example sentencesExamples
- It has to be said that Pas de la Casa is boring, unless getting legless ranks high on your list.
- The only cities to rate higher on the index were London, Paris and Helsinki.
- The babies whose parents signed to them later scored higher on repeated tests of verbal ability.
- There is no great benefit from ranking high this year as next year there are no World Championships.
- He scored high on intelligence tests, is ambidextrous and is known as a hard worker.
- What is lacking are not the resources, but the political will. It is clear these topics do not rate very high on his agenda.
- People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function.
1. 2.1 At a high price.
  以高价
  buying shares low and selling them high
  低价买进股票，高价卖出。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are cashing in on demand from the North where the value of sterling keeps prices high.
  A cynic might argue that drug companies hold back the release of drugs to keep prices high.
  McKnight feels these factors will keep the price of the components high.
  Over the next few weeks advisers will be deciding how many shares to sell and how high to price them.
  Experts say that worries about security in the Middle East are also helping to keep prices high.
  It depends in part on how high the oil price goes and for how long.
  A resale ban makes it easier for producers to divide up the market and keep prices high.
  PC vendors may even keep their prices high and use the cuts to fatten their own margins.
  Conventional wisdom dictates that investors should buy low and sell high.
  At one time it had instituted proceedings against more than 130 banks for colluding to keep prices high.
  That is because there is no limit to how high a share price can rise.
3(of a sound) at or to a high pitch.
高声地，尖声地
my voice went high with excitement
Example sentencesExamples
- Without realizing it, I had raised my voice high enough for the whole class to hear.
- I sang tenor and there was only like three of us in the whole school who could sing high like that.
- We, the campaigners for radical change, have to raise our voices high.
- My voice went high with excitement.
- ‘No!’ Stephanie raises her voice higher than she had anticipated. ‘That's not it at all!’

Phrases

ace (or king or queen etc.) high

(in card games) having the ace (or another specified card) as the highest-ranking.
（纸牌游戏中）A牌（或K、Q等指明的大牌）最大
he had a hearts flush, queen high
Example sentencesExamples
- I put down my three of a kind ace high and leaned back.
- Normal ranking of the cards applies, with ace high.
- The deck is a standard American deck of fifty-two cards, ace high.
- The cards of the other suits rank in the normal way from ace high down to two, leaving out the cards of the trump rank.
- When cutting for deal the cards now rank in their normal order with ace high, and the deal can be one or three cards at a time at the dealer's choice.

from on high

From remote high authority or heaven.
从高层（权威部门）；从高空；从天堂
central government programmes coming down from on high
从高层下发的中央政府计划。
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the best things about this movement is that no one is handing down a manifesto from on high.
- The decision has come from on high and there's not a lot we can do, really.
- All languages are human creations, not sent down from on high, and the words we invent change their meanings over hundreds of years.
- The overtly political lyrics have since been toned down, following a proclamation from on high that Eurovision songs should not be political in content.
- In the past decade, however, strategy and policy have increasingly been handed down from on high, with governors being required to implement such policy with no regard for their concerns over the dangers such implementation may pose.
- The inclusion of developing countries in a meeting of advanced industrialised countries reflects an awareness that elitist decisions cannot be imposed from on high without the cooperation of those whose interests they will affect.
- Nick's work with the homeless and the long-term unemployed, has won him recognition from on high, and I'm not just talking about the heavens.
- Grassroots supporters in this region sent a clear signal at the weekend to the party ‘top brass’ that they do not like dictation from on high.
- Decisions are often made from on high and the person running the pub has very little say in how they can run the operation.
- It's odd to present results as if delivered on stone tablets from on high when there are such glaring discrepancies between polls.

high and dry

1Out of the water, especially stranded by the sea as it retreats.
不在水中（尤指海水退潮后）
when the tide goes out, a lot of boats are left high and dry
Example sentencesExamples
- By carbon-dating sediments deposited in the lake's spillways or in marshes left high and dry by sudden drops in water, scientists can now chronicle the lake's changing profile.
- The ark was a refuge until the waters went down, leaving Noah and his menagerie high and dry on Mount Ararat.
- Beadlet anemones are found in such shallow water that they are left high and dry at low tide.
- Environment Agency Fisheries Officers swung into action earlier this week to rescue thousands of fish left high and dry after recent river levels plunged after flooding.
1. 1.1Without resources or help.
  your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner
  你家会因养家糊口之人的去世而处境困难。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's a dangerous strategy to sell a hotel mainly on its fashionability: fashions change, and when they do, you're apt to be left high and dry.
  Hundreds of south Essex pupils were today left high and dry again after two popular school bus routes were axed.
  This suggests yet another consequence of the cuts, which is that the women who are employed in the childcare sector will also be left high and dry now that their source of revenue has been seriously attenuated.
  In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry.
  More recently, policyholders were left high and dry when Blue Swan Insurance went into liquidation.
  So far, trading standards officers in Oldham are trying to help 150 customers who feel they have been left high and dry by the company.
  Holidaymakers have been left high and dry at Heathrow Airport as staff walked out in a dispute over clocking on and off.
  The scale of the crisis will become more evident on Tuesday when the watchdogs deliver their latest report, confirming that 60% of homeowners look set to be left high and dry.
  And some fear they could be left high and dry if plans to move accident and emergency services from Burnley to Blackburn are also approved.
  The 130 people, many sick or elderly, were left high and dry in the French pilgrimage town after their tour operator, Bon Voyage, couldn't provide a plane on Sunday.
  Synonyms
  destitute, bereft, helpless, without help, without assistance, without resources, in the lurch, in difficulties, forsaken, abandoned, stranded, marooned

high and low

In many different places.
四处，各处
I searched high and low for a new teacher
我四处寻找一位新老师。
Example sentencesExamples
- I too have searched high and low for an English translation of the Thai Highway Code, to no avail.
- He is part of the family and we have been searching high and low for him.
- Just about this very time four years ago rescue workers had been searching high and low for him.
- I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you and no one seemed to know where you were.
- At the end of the day this crime is unprecedented, we are searching high and low to find who is responsible.
- I have searched high and low for it and have even been round to local shops, but no one has seen it.
- Their distraught owners, who have searched high and low for their missing pets, fear it is more than a coincidence.
- Before searching high and low for a buyer, you might consider donating the items to charity.
- We searched high and low but there was no trace of the poor fellow and we had no choice but to continue.
- He and Grover had searched high and low for the letter yesterday, but it had been nowhere to be found.
Synonyms
everywhere, all over, all around, in all places, in every place, far and wide, far and near, here, there, and everywhere, extensively, exhaustively, thoroughly, widely, broadly, in every nook and cranny

high and mighty

informal Behaving as though one is more important than others.
〈非正式〉高傲的，盛气凌人的
he could punish her for being high and mighty
Example sentencesExamples
- Who did she think she was, coming all high and mighty with me?
- I tried to act like everyone else in Warrington, high and mighty and convinced of my own superiority, but I couldn't pull it off.
- Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad.
- There have been a lot of great champions but he is just classy - he is never high and mighty in the locker room or anything like that.
- We'd have exactly the same problems here so I'm not going to get all high and mighty.
- You might act all high and mighty, but I know your secret - your mother told me everything.
- It's a little too easy to come on all high and mighty about insolvency when you've never been there yourself.
- You might think you're so high and mighty now because you married the master, but I know your beginnings.
- I'm so tired of her giving us those looks that make us feel inferior, and I'm tired of her acting all high and mighty.
- You think you're so high and mighty, don't you?
Synonyms
self-important, condescending, patronizing, disdainful, supercilious, superior, snobbish, snobby, haughty, arrogant, proud, conceited, above oneself, egotistic, egotistical, imperious, overweening, overbearing

the high ground

A position of superiority (originally in military conflict)
（源于军事冲突）优势地位，优越位置
he wants the EC to take the moral high ground by agreeing to an environmental tax
Example sentencesExamples
- The homosexual community can't claim the high ground in the debate either.
- One of the most basic tenets of military strategy is never give up the high ground.
- Having started from a false premise it is difficult, if not impossible, to regain the high ground of scholarship.
- This could be one area where the Tories could seize the high ground, and I would welcome the mention of some concrete proposals in this area from the future leader to that effect.
- The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one.

a high old —
〈非正式，主北美〉中学

informal attributiveUsed for emphasis.
〈非正式〉（用于强调）非常，很
a high old time of it we all had
我们都玩得非常开心。
Example sentencesExamples
- Having wound ourselves up into a high old state, this is just what we need.
- Despite too much warm white wine, not enough sleep and the traditional conference 'flu, most people in Bournemouth are having a high old time.
- He fidgets around the sofa, crossing his arms, chewing his lip and wearing a curious smirk that could either mean he's having a high old time or that he's never hated an interview more.
- Seventy three years ago today, the good folk of Bishopthorpe would have been getting themselves into a high old state.

high, wide, and handsome

informal Expansive and impressive.
〈非正式〉无忧无虑地
the resort's skiing is high, wide, and handsome

it is high time that —

It is past the time when something should have happened or been done.
早该是…的时候了
it was high time that she faced facts
早该是她面对事实的时候了。
Example sentencesExamples
- I would suggest that it is high time that government reconsidered how it is going to deal with drug pushers, for current methods are expensive, fundamentally ineffective and deny funding in far more needy areas.
- I think it is high time that elected political representatives took a stand against this sort of behaviour.
- ‘Travel agents and tour operators operate a bonding system and it is high time that airline consumers had the same protection,’ Mr Brazil said.
- For a soccer-mad county like Waterford, 24 years is an eternity to be without a cup win and it is high time that that record was addressed and put right.
- The people themselves represent a powerful social resource, and it is high time that the federal government recognizes this.
- The fact that Ireland hasn't had a national agricultural policy since we joined the EU shows how complacent we have become and it is high time that we become more pro-active.
- Devizes has got a big problem here and it is high time that the schools, the police and the youth club all worked together to find a solution.
- It's high time the authorities considered giving rebates to people on long-term incapacity benefit.
- It's high time more draconian measures were brought in and quickly.
- If politics is about people, it is high time that taxpayers saw some form of payback for the money they contribute to society.

on high

In or to heaven or a high place.
从高处
a spotter plane circling on high
在高空盘旋的侦察机。
Example sentencesExamples
- How can anyone sit on high, preach the law and preach about justice and then send someone to their death?
- Someone on high wants it covered up and Brennan is determined to find out why.
- We managed, somehow, to keep our jobs, but alas, people on high had noticed and we were soon split up.
- Someone on high must have decided that we've had more than our fair share of ruined bank holidays.
Synonyms
at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude

on one's high horse

informal Behaving in an arrogant or pompous manner.
〈非正式〉逞威风，摆架子
hell, boy, get down off your high horse
Example sentencesExamples
- Granted, you can be quirky and annoying when you get on your high horse about something, but at least you care.
- Let me explain before you get on your high horse.
- Before you start saying this is just a non-smoker getting on his high horse, let me explain.
- Don't get on your high horse Nellie - you know as well as I do that this marriage is a marriage in name only.
- Before anyone gets back on their high horse, I have not missed a Sunday for church in something like nine years unless it is for weather, family emergency, or I am travelling.
- So maybe the FA should get their own house in order before climbing on their high horse.
- I think you'd have to be a bit of an asshole to get on your high horse and say ‘no we don't wanna play any of the old stuff’ and only play songs off the new record.
- It's all very fine the FA getting on their high horse about streaming of live matches, but if a match is sold out and it's only being shown live in Spain, for example, how else is a fan expected to see it?
- I just hope that the Minister, instead of getting on her high horse when I talked about the Food Safety Authority and the threat that it represents to a lot of dairy suppliers, will take those concerns more seriously.
- I think one has to be very careful before getting on one's high horse and saying either that big schools present problems, or little schools are the only way to go.
Synonyms
proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself

run high

1(of a river) be close to overflowing, with a strong current.
（河流）水满的，高涨的；水流湍急的
the river was running high with the rain
Example sentencesExamples
- It's spring in western Montana; the rivers are running high and the newspapers are running stories of capsized canoes and dogs washed away.
- The Grand River is running high and hard this morning.
- Floods also caused some rail services to be diverted, and the Environment Agency issued warnings via loudhailers that the River Sheaf near Sheffield's Midland Rail Station was running high.
- The river ran high with a fast, central ribbon of foam.
- The river is running high, and the boats settle into the current south of the Wilson Bridge.
- Homeowners and businesses in Sheffield and Doncaster had to pump water from downstairs rooms and cellars and loud hailers were used to warn businesses that the River Sheaf was running high close to Midland Station.
Synonyms
be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense
1. 1.1(of feelings) be intense.
  （感情）强烈，剧烈
  passions run high when marriages break up
  当婚姻破裂、孩子们也牵扯进来时，情绪就激动起来了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Feelings are running high on all sides, with some farmers saying the crisis has been mishandled, while others have seemingly profited from distress by claiming compensation of more than £1 million each.
  Feelings are running high in Sligo at the moment and passions are only set to increase in the run-up to January 1.
  Passions have been running high in the Australian community with regard to her twenty-year sentence for drug trafficking; the majority of people believed she was innocent.
  This is obviously an emotive issue, and emotions are currently running high.
  In the final analysis, outsiders may wonder why passions are running so high on both sides of the divide.
  As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious.
  Passions continued to run high in the Italian city of Genoa last night despite the end of the G8 summit.
  Emotions were running high and people were obviously worried about their jobs.
  Whenever you have tensions running high and military forces in close proximity to each other, you have the potential for conflict.
  Ricketts said: ‘Confidence is running high in the camp and everyone is feeling a lot happier after our run of three wins in four games.’
  Synonyms
  be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense

Origin

Old English hēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoog and German hoch.

High is one of those small words that plays a part in a large number of expressions. In the calendar of the Christian Church there used to be two sorts of special day: a high day and a holiday. Holiday (Old English) was originally holy day and was a day set apart for religious observance. A high day was a much more important religious festival commemorating a particular sacred person or event. These together give us high days and holidays. Being high on drugs is associated with the 1960s, but the expression goes back at least to the 1930s. Alcohol can also be classed as a drug, and you can read of a man being ‘high with wine’ as early as 1627.
The first records of high, wide, and handsome, ‘expansive and impressive’, are from US newspapers in the 1880s. In 1932 a book on Yankee Slang comments that it is a common shout at rodeos: ‘Ride him, Cowboy, high, wide, and handsome.’ The expression to be for the high jump might conjure up athletics, but behind it lies a much grimmer scene. It dates from the early 20th century, when it was a slang term used by soldiers to mean ‘to be put on trial before your commanding officer’. The image is actually of a person being executed by hanging, with the jump being the effect of the gallows trapdoor being suddenly opened beneath their feet. See also hog

Rhymes

ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai

Definition of high in US English:

high

adjectivehīhaɪ

1Of great vertical extent.
高的
the top of a high mountain
高山之巅。
the mast was higher than the tallest building in the city
这根桅杆比该市最高的楼房还高。
Example sentencesExamples
- Crystal clear streams flow down from the high mountains into the Datong River.
- Climatic effects are accentuated on the high elevations of these mountain ranges.
- It's the one thing that will keep you going when that mountain seems just too high to climb.
- The conditions in the high mountains were hard and four of our group turned back.
- Veteran climbers bemoan the increasing commercialisation of high peaks such as Everest and K2.
- In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches.
- Alice Springs is surrounded by high black mountains, similar to the mountains of Mecca.
- The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains.
- He said policing the gardens was difficult as they were secluded and surrounded by a high hedge and fence.
- It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
- Old rocks predominate and high hills and mountains are more common.
- Climbing and trekking are obvious income sources for countries endowed with high mountain ranges.
- Sherpas, well known as mountain guides and porters, live in the high mountains of E. Nepal.
- Although the new policy is a little late for the downtown area, which is already over-crowded with high buildings, there is still a lot the city can do to improve the situation.
- To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow.
- Watch the skies if you happen to be walking near any high buildings.
- It was a place untouched by man, for the mountain was far too high, and far too treacherous.
- They are planning to install high fences and replace the smashed windows, which have been boarded up.
- In the centre of the 10 km deep crater is a mountain almost as high as Mount Everest.
- The open area is secured by high boarding and is used for car parking.
Synonyms
tall, lofty, towering, soaring, elevated, giant, big
1. 1.1 (after a measurement and in questions) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom.
  （用在量度单位之后，也用于问句）（测量从上到下的特定距离）…高度的
  a tree forty feet high
  一棵40英尺高的树。
  how high is the fence?
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘How high is it?’ asked Holmes. ‘It is just over a metre high.’
  They say the company's proposal to build a 7m high building on the site, which backs on to a number of homes in Gilhams Avenue, is unnecessary and intrusive.
  Police closed the promenade in Blackpool to motorists as waves dozens of feet high pounded the seafront.
  The two-and-a-half tonne boat was lowered down a sheer cliff 200 ft high.
  The project aims to build 165 wind turbines, 400 feet high, in the hills above Tregaron.
  He was not able to stand up in the space, which was about three feet six inches high.
  The New Year's Day wave passed just under the 30-metre high platform of the North Alwyn rig.
  The structure was mounted between two walls, each 70 feet long and 50 feet high.
  The alley was a dead end; the granite wall at the end was at least twelve feet high.
  The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet.
  It is only dangerous if you attempt to climb up on to the wall, which he seems to forget is about five feet high!
  Its ceilings are barely five feet high, because the only people who worked there were child labourers.
  In the middle of the field there was a square-shaped, flat-roofed building, about eight feet high.
  Because of the extreme snow that had hit the region this winter, the snow was five feet high.
  North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov said the glacier was 150m high.
  Her tomato plants are more than four feet high and have given us a constant supply of tomatoes all summer.
  Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs.
  The tide was in, and the breakers were a good twenty to thirty feet high when they hit the harbour wall.
  The fox cleared a six-foot high fence to get among the chickens and would have killed them all had it not been disturbed.
  On the west side of the rock is a vertical wall about 8m high, covered in white and orange anemones.
2. 1.2 Far above ground, sea level, or another point of reference.
  远离地面（海面或另一参照点）的
  a fortress high up on a hill
  高据山头的宫殿。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Alpine plants are those that are naturally found in high altitudes.
  It's another gorgeous day. There were some high cirrus clouds earlier and it looks like they're coming back, but, for the most part, it's just been beautiful.
  Because of its high altitude, it is typically one of the first Scottish roads to be closed during bad winter weather.
  Filming at high altitude in the Peruvian Andes wasn't always much fun.
  The speakers will be installed throughout the station in inaccessible or high areas to stop them being vandalised.
  Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert.
  Remember that the overland trip will help you acclimatize to the high altitude.
  To the left of the reception hall is the drawing room with an attractive period fireplace, original wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows.
  You enter a long narrow main room with a shimmering disco ball hanging from a high ceiling.
  Most sports utility vehicles are so high off the ground that your dog has to be virtually airborne or a St Bernard to be able to climb in.
  Few people have ever survived such a serious injury at such high altitude.
  This area has a wonderfully high ceiling and gets plenty of natural light through a large window and patio doors.
  It's more likely to occur if you're exercising in hot weather or at a high altitude.
  I didn't get a hint of back-ache from the driving seat, or from pulling gear in and out of the high luggage area.
  Ben knew Joe had a fear of heights, and the ledge was high off the ground.
  At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized.
  In common with the living room, the dining area has a high ceiling and a fireplace.
  Rare species of bird inhabit the higher branches of the trees.
  The window was much too high up for her to reach, but unlike the one in the bathroom, it was large enough for her to squeeze through.
  The plant is easy to propagate, and tolerates poor soil, high altitudes, and harsh climates.
  Synonyms
  in the air, in the sky, high up, up, up above, on high, overhead, above
3. 1.3 Extending above the normal or average level.
  （比正常或平均水平）高的
  a round face with a high forehead
  高额圆脸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Elsie was a petite woman with thick waves of dark hair and a high forehead.
  She wore her hair in a high bun and even applied a little kohl around her eyes and some red rouge on her cheeks and lips.
  He was more curious about the decorated headband crowning the man's high forehead.
  The forehead is high and serious, and the hair, which one feels to be fine and thick and fair, drawn off it and lying close like a cap.
  Beads of sweat formed on his high forehead.
  Councillors in Melksham have backed a hairdresser's call for action over a dangerous high pavement in the town.
  His hair was receding at the front and he had a high forehead.
  He had dark red hair and rather elven looking features - high cheekbones, sharp chin.
  Crossing his legs in front of him, he leans back against the high pillows and closes his eyes.
  Michelle says that really I should have a fringe because I have a high forehead.
  She's either not made up or has applied very subtle cosmetics to her high forehead and cute snub nose.
  Her broad flat forehead and high cheekbones catch the light from the windows behind them.
  The face is pale and perhaps slightly unearthly, with a high forehead sharply defined against red-gold hair.
  In most patients with a high forehead, or in males with a receding hairline, the incision is placed at the frontal hairline.
  Once in bog at the bottom of the coulee, one can see that the high grass is covered with grey silt.
  Possessing a high forehead and pale skin was the most important factor of Renaissance beauty.
  There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin.
  The grass right now is thick and high, but there are rumours it's going to be cut down.
  Dark curls, cropped close to his skull, give way to a high forehead and a strong jaw.
  Light brown hair was brushed back from a high forehead except for a few locks which fell forward.
4. 1.4attributive (of territory or landscape) inland and well above sea level.
  （地域或地形）内陆高地
  high prairies
  高地草原。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The traditional territory contains a diversity of landscapes with rugged mountains and numerous valleys and high prairies.
  This species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico, while a lighter-built species (Arctodus pristinus) with smaller teeth inhabited the more heavily wooded Atlantic coastal region.
5. 1.5attributive Performed at, to, or from a considerable height.
  在（或至、从）高处
  high diving
  高台跳水。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting.
  In terms of risk, this is on a par with high diving into a piranha pool.
  Southall was finally booked for his second late and high lunge on the Norwegian Riise inside five minutes.
  The leaps and jumps were high and spectacular to watch, yet the dancers made it appear effortless.
6. 1.6 (of latitude) close to 90°; near the North or South Pole.
  （纬度）接近90°的；南北极附近的
  high southern latitudes
  接近南极的高纬度地区。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The theory says the high latitudes should warm up more than the lower latitudes.
  They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator.
  It is found in the recently glaciated areas of the Northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere.
  These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins.
  Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes.
7. 1.7Baseball (of a pitched ball) above a certain level, such as the batter's armpits, as it crosses home plate, and thus outside the strike zone.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals led off the top of the ninth inning with a high fly down the left field line.
  De los Santos uses a high fastball as his out pitch and has an average slider and splitter.
  He's focusing on balance to avoid lunging for high pitches out of the strike zone.
  In a year or two, he was able to hit the high fastball or at least take the pitch.
  Opponents try to tempt him with high fastballs out of the zone and breaking balls down and away.
2Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity.
（数量、大小或强度）大（或高）的，大（或高）于正常的
a high temperature
高温。
fudge is high in calories
Example sentencesExamples
- This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices.
- Although he was earning a relatively high salary, he found the job extremely stressful.
- Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds.
- But one of the factors that made cancer treatment expensive was the high cost of the drugs.
- The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand.
- Cashews are high in protein and carbohydrate as well as being rich in vitamin A.
- My personal opinion on the speed limits of this country is that they are too high for residential areas.
- Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter and the oil in a frying pan, add the mushrooms and fry over a high heat until golden brown.
- Educational standards in the area are high, particularly among younger people.
- The chilly weather and high wind affected his performance, according to Zhang.
- Staff are also expressing concerns over job security, high workloads and excessive hours.
- Many of us eat to excess and eat too many foods with a high sugar content.
- He said the area had a high percentage of children under four, and many parents were without family support.
- Chickpeas are exceptionally high in protein and very low in fat, making them an ideal food.
- This three-bedroom period house has been extended and renovated to a very high standard.
- Waves on Puget Sound were so high that day that only four crew members could row.
- This area has high unemployment, and mortality is above the national average.
- As a result, many people may find they are actually over-insured and paying unnecessarily high premiums.
- The firm says demand for industrial property from purchasers in the West Yorkshire area is high.
- He added that staff would be asked to work extra hours to cope with the high volume of business during the festive period.
Synonyms
inflated, excessive, unreasonable, overpriced, sky-high, unduly expensive, dear, costly, top, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive
strong, powerful, violent, intense, extreme, forceful, sharp, stiff
1. 2.1 Of large numerical or monetary value.
  （数值或价值）高（或大）的
  they had been playing for high stakes
  他们一直在豪赌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first deal is decided between two opponents who each cut the cards - whoever cuts the higher card has the slight advantage of dealing first.
  The only difference is the stakes are significantly higher.
  You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost.
  It was one of the most daring missions of the Second World War - and the stakes had never been higher.
  It seems to me that many in the U.S. don't quite appreciate how high the stakes are.
  But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card.
2. 2.2 Very favorable.
  良好的，赞许的，有利的
  nature had provided him with an admirably high opinion of himself
  Example sentencesExamples
  I hold you in very high esteem, and have held you in very high esteem throughout that period.
  I am delighted he has been so impressed by our care and has such a high opinion of our staff.
  Self-esteem means having a high opinion of ourselves regardless of what we may or may not have done to earn it.
  I have, as you know, an extremely high regard for the men and women in the Australian Defence Force.
  You have always said you wanted to work with Sean Penn, because you had a very high opinion of him.
  I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly.
  We cannot have too low an opinion of ourselves or too high an opinion of Christ.
  People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband.
  The selectors have got a high opinion of Justin Marshall as a person and as a player.
  but, in common with other members of the family, he had a very high opinion of himself.
  The police are not held in high regard in some areas and their self-esteem and image have been damaged.
  If you are in Government you appoint people whom you can work with, and whom you have a high opinion of.
  Hearing it again after years only confirmed my high opinion of the score.
  Many people close to the club have a high opinion of him and we are quickly finding out why.
  He does not hold the pastor in high regard and often considers his homilies burdensome.
  The fact that Britain's No 2 has a ferocious serve and a high opinion of his own abilities only makes matters worse.
  It did not take long for the cricketing community to realise why Cronje was admired and held in high esteem.
  The media baron has always had a high opinion of himself and a low one of many others.
  Like many people he doesn't have a very high opinion of them claiming that they were put on this planet to make solicitors look good!
  Mr Blass is looking forward to the operation being fully up and running in Sligo, an area he holds in high esteem.
  Synonyms
  favourable, good, positive, approving, admiring, complimentary, commendatory, appreciative, flattering, glowing, adulatory, approbatory, rapturous, full of praise
3. 2.3 Extreme in religious or political views.
  （宗教或政治观点）极端的，偏激的
  the high Christology of the Christian creeds
  Example sentencesExamples
  Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians.
  The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles.
4. 2.4 (of a period or movement) at its peak.
  （时期或运动）在顶点的
  high summer
  盛夏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the blistering heat of high summer, it is literally too hot for study and so youngsters get a couple of months off.
  It seems like only a fortnight ago it was high summer - hot sweaty summer - but now all of a sudden it's autumn.
  It gets so crowded here in high summer that there's often no room to sit down, let alone lay out a towel.
  The air had been washed down, sweeping away the usual mist that hangs over the Greek Islands in high summer.
  As it progresses the music evokes images of South Sea islands in balmy high summer.
  The low winter sun is much more favourable for good photography than high summer brilliance.
  It was high summer, and the grass shone green even as the powerful winds caused it to ripple and shimmer.
  Moving into high summer, there are literally dozens of plants to choose from.
  This is Yorkshire in high summer, so it's pouring with rain this morning.
  Don't go to Spain in high summer as it becomes very hot, especially away from coastal breezes.
  The leaves had lost the fresh green of early summer and taken on the darker bronzy tinge of high summer.
  You can spot all these features from your cliff path when the water is clear during high summer.
  The existing public lavatory is used by 600 people a day in high summer.
  It was high summer when I was there and as the days rolled on and flawless blue sky followed flawless blue sky, it began to get a little boring.
  The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance.
  This is one of the best spots in the country, but it's cold even in high summer.
  If succulent plants are kept out in the high summer months then they get affected.
  The human body was the main preoccupation of High Renaissance artists and they often depicted it nude.
  The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer.
  Spain's Balearic islands are now among the in places to see and be seen in high summer.
3Great in rank, status, or importance.
（等级或地位）高级的，重要的
financial security is high on your list of priorities
金融安全列在你优先考虑事项的最前面。
he held high office in professional organizations
Example sentencesExamples
- Road traffic accident reduction is a high priority for North Yorkshire firefighters and our partners.
- Arthur Balfour unexpectedly rewarded him by appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer, a higher office than he had ever received under the Liberals or the Lloyd George coalition.
- We have many women in high positions in the Church especially working in parishes.
- At that point in time, the impending smoking ban and the effect it would have on drink sales were high on the agenda.
- He said this situation had put the issue of imports very high on the agenda.
- He also achieved a high position in the Academy at Geneva, becoming its rector.
- For someone in such a high position to dismiss and discount this argument is really worrying.
- Robert Altman has definitely made better films, but this one must rank high on the list.
- Getting water is high on everyone's list of priorities and takes up a good part of a resident's time.
- What is it like for a woman in Taiwan to rise to such a high position, and what challenges have you faced?
- In addition to housing and employment, education and tackling crime are also high on their agenda.
- Press conferences are usually reserved for those higher in the chain of command.
- Frank just happened to have a family member who had a high position in Microsoft.
- Respect for the preservation of the environment was high on his sense of priorities.
- None of his are thought through, a dangerous fault for someone so high in Government.
- The escalating problem of unruly, yobbish behaviour is now high on the agenda for politicians of all persuasions.
- Lydon has much to offer, but Woodward elevated him to high office incredibly early in his coaching career.
- Finding a permanent home for the campus is high on the university's agenda.
- He stressed that other high positions in the organisation are filled by those committed to conservation.
- Politics is much more of a closed shop in Britain and Australia than it is in the US. You have to have go through a certain lengthy career path in the party and parliament before standing for any high office.
Synonyms
high-ranking, high-level, leading, top, top-level, prominent, eminent, pre-eminent, foremost, senior, influential, distinguished, powerful, important, elevated, notable, principal, prime, premier, chief, main, upper, ruling, exalted, illustrious
1. 3.1 Ranking above others of the same kind.
  最佳的，出类拔萃的
  they announced the High Commissioner's retirement
  Example sentencesExamples
  The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country.
  Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002.
2. 3.2 Morally or culturally superior.
  高尚的，崇高的；高雅的
  they believed that nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness
  他们相信驱动自然的不单纯是自私自利，而是更高尚的东西。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What his parents lacked in high culture, they made up for in political principles.
  It may not have been high art, but for sheer singalong spectacle and professionalism it was unbeatable.
  Literature was no exception, and Shakespeare was eagerly received as the epitome of high culture.
  This was a right old mish-mash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre.
  Her films and writings establish an exchange between high and popular culture, art and commerce.
  It would have been the kiss of death for his career - but if he really was motivated by high principles then at least he would know he had done the right thing.
  Persian was the court language and the language of literature and of high culture.
  The classics had a profound presence not only in the high culture, but in the inner lives of educated persons.
  Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read.
  The Czechs are nothing if not talented musicians with a deep love of fine culture and high art.
  An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin.
  The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture.
  During this period the gap between most forms of high culture and popular culture remained wide.
  Once realized, this consciousness leads to an awareness of something higher than physical needs, emotional desires, and survival demands dictated by hormones or organs.
  Chapter 7 looks at the part that the Bible has played in high and popular culture.
  Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture.
  The new Millennium wing at the National Gallery represents the marriage of high ideals and fine art.
  While he argues that the opposition of high and low art is wrong, he does so only because he doesn't know what high art is in the first place.
  Lisa and I are off for an afternoon of high culture at the theatre.
  One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture.
  Synonyms
  high-minded, noble-minded, lofty, moral, ethical, honourable, admirable, upright, principled, honest, virtuous, righteous
  excellent, outstanding, exemplary, exceptional, admirable, fine, great, good, very good, first-class, first-rate, superior, superlative, superb, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, meritorious, blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable, perfect, unequalled, unparalleled
4(of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range.
（声音或音符）高音的
a high, squeaky voice
高而尖的声音。
Example sentencesExamples
- A high sing-song voice rang from the kitchen and a woman appeared.
- Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity.
- The best singers started their song at a low pitch to suit the range with which their voices are able to cope, and did not try songs which required them to reach high notes.
- Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm.
- The sound of the drill is high and shrill and shatters the silence in my room.
- ‘You're hurt,’ she said in her high childish voice.
- All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch.
- Did you know that as human ears age, they lose the ability to pick up high pitches?
- The intro was played softly and her voice was high and sweet, singing the melody.
- As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter.
- She has this really high shrill voice that makes me cringe every time she speaks.
- A high whining sound came from the other end, and he held the phone away from his ear, rolling his eyes and grimacing.
Synonyms
high-pitched, high-frequency, soprano, treble, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating
1. 4.1 (of a singer or instrument) producing notes of relatively high pitch.
  （歌手或乐器）音调高的
  a high soprano voice
  女高音的高嗓音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The G clef is used for the upper staff of keyboard music, the soprano voice, and the high instruments (e.g. violin or flute).
  The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano.
  He wrote several so-called ‘concert’ arias, tailor-made for Aloysia's astonishing high soprano.
  His energy in concert was quite inspiring, each song found him stomping about the stage, singing in a high tenor with sparse instrumentation provided by an acoustic guitar.
5informal predicative Feeling euphoric, especially from the effects of drugs or alcohol.
some of them were already high on alcohol and Ecstasy
他们中有些人已经因酒精和摇头丸而过度兴奋了。
he was high on an idea
Example sentencesExamples
- He used to come home high on marijuana and my little sisters were seeing him like that, so I have seen what drugs can lead to.
- During some of these incidents he admitted to being high on heroin and cocaine.
- I could tell that she had slept hardly at all during the day, she was probably still high from the night before.
- He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish.
- During the three-week trial the jury heard Giles, 19, was high on drink and drugs at the time of the attack.
- The defence lawyer noted that he was high on crack cocaine at the time of the stabbing.
- In fact, as the hours wore on, I found I was feeling charged and a little high with all the chocolate.
- They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs.
- He admitted that he had no idea what he was doing on the day of the murders because he was so high on drugs.
- Maybe I am still high from all the joints I smoked earlier this evening.
- Once again a boorish minority, high on drugs or drink, is to blame.
- It was also alleged he rang Miss A in the early hours telling her he was high on cocaine and that he wanted to perform a sex act with her.
- It was 2001 when Joe was physically attacked by a passenger he believes was high on drugs.
- This wasn't the boy who seemed to be high on opium every time I met him.
- This witness also admitted to being high on crack cocaine, marijuana and beer the night of the killing.
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, on drugs, drugged, stupefied, befuddled, delirious, hallucinating
1. 5.1 Intoxicated with drugs.
  （因吸毒）极其兴奋的，醉的
6predicative Unpleasantly strong-smelling, in particular (of food) beginning to go bad.
（味道）刺鼻的，臭的（尤指食物开始变坏）
Example sentencesExamples
- The cheese was rather high, and tended to crumble when we opened the tin, but it was quite edible.
Synonyms
gamy, smelly, strong-smelling
1. 6.1 (of game) slightly decomposed and so ready to cook.
  （野味）略微变质得马上煮食的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mine are hung for no more than 2 or 3 days especially over the last few years what with the milder winters. Its a question of taste and how high you like your bird.
  The meat was quite high with complex strong flavours, which is just the way I like it.
  Synonyms
  gamy, smelly, strong-smelling
7Phonetics
(of a vowel) produced with the tongue relatively near the palate.
〔语音〕（元音）舌位高的
Example sentencesExamples
- The symbol ‘i’ in IPA (as in most orthographies) denotes a high front vowel.
- New York pronunciation has a long, tense, very round vowel in words like caught, and a long, tense, relatively high vowel in words such as cab.

nounhīhaɪ

1A high point, level, or figure.
高点，高水平，高数字
commodity prices were at a rare high
商品价格之高确乎少有。
Example sentencesExamples
- However, economists believe the euro will continue to reach new highs against both the dollar and sterling in the coming months.
- In Finland, sea levels reached record highs, cutting off several coastal roads, but no major damage was reported.
- The bureau said Monday was the hottest day of the year so far, with a record high of 37.8?
- Similarly, by early January, the tech stocks that had led the Nasdaq to record levels had plummeted 35 percent from their December highs.
- However, with borrowing and debt levels at record highs, buoyancy in these areas could still crumble rapidly if the general view of the economy changes for the worse.
- Equally, the proportion undertaking further study is at a record high.
- With the summer heat hitting new highs and the air conditioner not functioning due to power restrictions, I decided that we would take a little expedition to the zoo.
- The banks' gloomy predictions come after the FTSE100 reached new highs in 2003 and its highest level since August 2002.
- Coogan's comments follow the publication of figures last week which showed that mortgage lending and levels of personal debt had reached all-time highs.
- Everyone knows about oil, but wholesale coal prices rose by 40% last year and metal prices, from copper to platinum, still regularly hit new highs.
- But over the week the Japanese yen leapt to new three-year highs of around Y110.90 against the dollar, signalling that policy may indeed have changed after all.
- With gasoline hitting new highs, motorists have been doing plenty of grousing at the pumps.
- The IPCC have said that the level of other greenhouse gases is also at an all time high.
- Temperatures averaged almost 10 degrees above normal with highs reaching the low-to-mid nineties.
- Gasoline prices continue to hit record highs and AAA says the national average for a gallon of self-serve regular now is $2.41.
- Records tumbled across Yorkshire yesterday as schools and colleges in the region saw A-level scores hit new highs.
- The jobless figures rose in every state except Western Australia, reaching highs of 9 percent in Queensland and 9.2 percent in Tasmania.
- This is a big worry, because mortgage debt and consumer credit figures keep hitting new highs every month.
- In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued.
- Jiangxi Province in East China has been hot since the beginning of July, with highs over 37 degrees Celsius almost every day.
Synonyms
high level, high point, record level, peak, record, high water mark
1. 1.1 A high-frequency sound or musical note.
  高音，高音符
  Example sentencesExamples
  Excellent move, because the iRiver's audio quality remains one of the best on the market, with eardrum-busting bass notes or ethereal highs.
  She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song.
  The Harman / Kardon speakers produce deep, luscious bass and clear, crisp singing highs.
  The Scandinavian sound tends to be clean and full, with aching highs and a harmony that carries in both channels of stereo in a unique way.
  Quite frankly I was pretty surprised that it sounded pretty good in both music and DVD's, with nice highs even without a single tweeter.
  From the mellow, dark low register to brilliant instrumental highs, his sound is beautiful - like musical crystal.
  Despite the electronics, the music is rather flat and uniform, lacking highs, lows and climaxes.
  I wanted to use something with plenty of highs and lows, and good use of bass.
  Children are particularly sensitive to highs and lows, as well as pitch duration.
  Like other Bose speaker products, its sound is huge, with tight, crispy highs and deep clean lows.
2. 1.2 A high power setting.
  强动力（设置），强挡
  the vent blower was on high
  通风口的吹风机开了强挡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I lie in bed, clad in shorts and a tank top, with the fan on high and all the windows open.
  Put the element on high until the water in the bottom pot is boiling, then turn down to medium.
  A similar phenomenon occurs when you have a heater set on high in an overheated room with all the windows and doors closed.
  If you are griddling, preheat your ridged grill pan on high for five minutes.
  When the rice is cooked, microwave the cabbage on high for two to three minutes or until soft.
3. 1.3 An area of high atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
  高气压区；高气压
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds.
  These intermittent highs effectively separate the northwestern trough from the deep-water regions of the Hatton-Rockall and Iceland Basins to the west.
  The high may move northward to cover Scotland or stay stuck just south of the UK.
4. 1.4 Top gear in a motor vehicle.
  （机动车辆的）高速挡
  Example sentencesExamples
  While Sullivan hasn't reached Mikita and Savard's heights, he has recorded career highs in goals and points in this, his second season with the Hawks.
2A notably happy or successful moment.
（显著的）幸福时刻，成功时刻
the highs and lows of life
人生的苦乐。
Example sentencesExamples
- Three years of touring around America and experiencing the highs and lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle followed, with Mankowitz in effect becoming the seventh member of the band.
- It has been a long year for the Chancellor, one in which he has seen a number of highs, notably the birth of his son.
- From his days as an amateur with the late Gordon Richards in the early 1970s, O'Neill has experienced dramatic highs and lows.
- The controversial 27-year-old has suffered an all too familiar emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows.
- From the depths of despair to the ecstatic highs, the Olympics coverage on the BBC has provided us with a roller coaster of emotions bringing out the best in live television over the last couple of weeks.
- All in all, then, a talented performer with some notable career highs.
- She knows more about racing's highs and lows than anyone, having overcome all manner of hurdles to establish herself at the top of the sport.
- The crash was one of the lows in a career that has had many highs, notably winning the World Under-21 title in 1993.
- He believed that without lows you couldn't experience highs, and that by getting through our problems together, our relationship was strengthened.
- No candidate is more emotionally prepared for the exhilarating highs and debilitating lows of a presidential marathon.
- Most of these players had never experienced emotional highs and lows of such a magnitude in such a close time period.
- Like many players, I've experienced the highs and lows which go hand-in-hand with having a career in professional football.
- It's important to remember that we all experience highs and lows in our fitness programs; it's how you deal with them that matters most.
- In more than a quarter of a century of training, Luca Cumani has enjoyed many highs, including success in two Epsom Derbys, but also his fair share of lows.
- John will talk about his own background and experience, sharing the highs and lows of running a successful business.
- It was a time of occasional highs and many lows - court appearances, television interviews, press conferences, parliamentary lobbies.
- Married in 1949 to a very successful businessman in India, she has experienced many highs and lows in her life.
- As well as the highs, Sheerin has experienced enough of life's lows to ensure he appreciates all that comes his way.
- The awards give students the opportunity to experience the emotional highs and lows and the practicalities of a live performance.
- Jacklin's life has been a roller-coaster of emotions, full of highs and lows.
Synonyms
ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight
1. 2.1informal A state of high spirits or euphoria.
  〈非正式〉（尤指毒品引起的）快感，兴奋（状态）
  the highs I got from cocaine always ended in despair
  the team is still on a high from Saturday's victory
  Example sentencesExamples
  The audience were whipped up into a frenzy of emotion that sent everyone home on a high.
  She claims she now has more energy and inspiration, and is on a permanent natural high.
  One day she would be depressed and then the next day she would be on a high.
  I want to be clean and healthy and fit for my kids and have normal highs that aren't due to cocaine.
  Two trophies in his first six months in charge ensured the club ended last season on a high.
  With a World Cup just months away, England are determined to finish this Six Nations' campaign on a high.
  There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high.
  Fortunately, I was on a high by now, and energy was pouring out of me.
  Most of the pilots were still on a high from the manner of the victory.
  It could have been better, but thankfully we finished on a high by winning the FA Cup.
  He's gone for a lot of French players but French football is on a real high at the moment.
  Cannabis does alter your mind. It can make you more irritable, or sometimes depress you, or sometimes put you on a high.
  He neither drinks, nor smokes, preferring transcendental meditation to the highs attained through substance abuse.
  All the tension and knots just disappeared and I was on a high for the rest of the day.
  I was on a high for the rest of the night, and it lasted until the next day.
  Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time.
  By the end of the performance I'm absolutely starving and on a real adrenaline high.
  The neurotransmitter plays a major role in drug-induced highs and in addiction.
  If you are an adrenalin junkie, you can rest assured that the highs you get from a workout with this car will never be beaten by anything else with four wheels and a licence plate.
  Then the homecoming we got in Galway, you'd be on a high for a week after it.
  Synonyms
  ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight
3North American informal High school (chiefly used in names)
I enjoyed my years at McKinley High
Example sentencesExamples
- I was in the last year of primary school while my sister was in junior high.
- We're both adults now and maybe formed a different idea about ourselves from who we were in junior high.
- I grabbed his hand, wanting to listen to the song I had listened to back in junior high.
- It's nothing for him to stop by a class room and spend an hour with kids at a local junior high.
- Back in junior high, the mall was the place where my friends and I spent most of our free time.
- Miller is not a musician, but he tried the trombone for one semester in junior high.
- Blake stopped the car in front of the junior high and Andy waved at some friends.
- When we got to the top we would both talk about how life would be like when we were in junior high.
- I've had this pen name since junior high, and it doesn't do a whole lot for me anymore.
- I took a couple of deep breaths, preparing myself for yet another day at Green County High, and then took off for my Algebra class.
- I have been a diabetic since junior high and had to drink sissy diet sodas for years.
- I was supposed to be going into my sophomore year with all the friends that I had made last year in junior high.
- I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger.
- He has a new family and a job as head janitor in a junior high, but the past isn't through with him yet.
- From the day he and I had met in the fifth or sixth grade, up until our final two years in junior high, we had both been fairly close and good friends.
- She had secretly liked him since junior high and now she got to pretend to be with him.
- She grew up on the North Shore, and met Billy Davie when she was still in junior high.
- He had gone to my elementary school, moved on to junior high, and I never saw him again.
- The soccer conversation ended as we arrived at the school parking lot of Clemington High.
- And these were girls that Haylie had grown up with, in middle school and junior high.

adverbhīhaɪ

1At or to a considerable or specified height.
在（或向）高处（或高度）
the sculpture stood about five feet high
这雕塑约5英尺高。
Example sentencesExamples
- The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree.
- Mr Bond said that before the council collected the mess this week it was piled five feet high against the wall of the flats.
- If you prefer the sun head to North Costa Blanca in Spain where, set high on a hill in the Jalon valley is a four bedroom villa with its own swimming pool and sun terrace just an hour from Alicante airport.
- In one corner of the room sat a desk and chair, both made of maple wood and piled high with various papers.
- The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky and a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains.
- All of the larger lakes in Gran Canaria are situated high up in the mountains.
- But some governments placed it higher on their agendas than others.
- Across the room stood a tower of vinyl albums stacked about 14 feet high.
- The cheap seats way up high are packed and, in the orchestra, there are just a few empties.
- The circular table in his office is piled high with newspapers and books that he intends to read if only he could find the time.
- I was a little concerned that I would pitch my material too high or too low.
- Some athletes take steroids in the hopes that they will improve their ability to run faster, hit farther, lift heavier weights, jump higher, or have more endurance.
- Around ten minutes to three I observe a plane flying high overhead and heading out towards the Atlantic.
- He was balding, pudgy, pale and had his pants hitched up a little too high on his waist.
- So, despite these edicts, new apartment houses continued to be built five or six storeys high.
- Our main focus is on promoting young talent and we are developing this sponsorship to recognise individuals who aim high and work hard.
- Dishes from yesterday's dinner are piled high in the sink.
- Any visit to his house was likely to involve a discussion about the placing of a sculpture or just how high on the wall a tapestry should hang.
- At last they stopped to eat and rest again, as the sun reached its zenith high above.
- The shade in which they had been resting was rapidly disappearing as the sun rose high into the sky.
- Exploding gas tanks launched huge fireballs and black plumes of smoke high into the air.
- The decor is sparse and dated, but staff are friendly and keen to explain the different dishes. There is no wait service - you just grab a tray and pile it high.
Synonyms
at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude
2Highly.
高（高）地
he ranked high among the pioneers of twentieth-century chemical technology
在20世纪化学技术的先驱中他名列前茅。
Example sentencesExamples
- The only cities to rate higher on the index were London, Paris and Helsinki.
- People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function.
- He scored high on intelligence tests, is ambidextrous and is known as a hard worker.
- What is lacking are not the resources, but the political will. It is clear these topics do not rate very high on his agenda.
- It has to be said that Pas de la Casa is boring, unless getting legless ranks high on your list.
- The babies whose parents signed to them later scored higher on repeated tests of verbal ability.
- There is no great benefit from ranking high this year as next year there are no World Championships.
1. 2.1 At a high price.
  以高价
  buying shares low and selling them high
  低价买进股票，高价卖出。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Experts say that worries about security in the Middle East are also helping to keep prices high.
  A cynic might argue that drug companies hold back the release of drugs to keep prices high.
  They are cashing in on demand from the North where the value of sterling keeps prices high.
  That is because there is no limit to how high a share price can rise.
  PC vendors may even keep their prices high and use the cuts to fatten their own margins.
  At one time it had instituted proceedings against more than 130 banks for colluding to keep prices high.
  McKnight feels these factors will keep the price of the components high.
  Over the next few weeks advisers will be deciding how many shares to sell and how high to price them.
  Conventional wisdom dictates that investors should buy low and sell high.
  A resale ban makes it easier for producers to divide up the market and keep prices high.
  It depends in part on how high the oil price goes and for how long.
3(of a sound) at or to a high pitch.
高声地，尖声地
Example sentencesExamples
- Without realizing it, I had raised my voice high enough for the whole class to hear.
- ‘No!’ Stephanie raises her voice higher than she had anticipated. ‘That's not it at all!’
- I sang tenor and there was only like three of us in the whole school who could sing high like that.
- My voice went high with excitement.
- We, the campaigners for radical change, have to raise our voices high.

Phrases

ace (or king or queen etc.) high

(in card games) having the ace (or another specified card) as the highest-ranking.
（纸牌游戏中）A牌（或K、Q等指明的大牌）最大
Example sentencesExamples
- Normal ranking of the cards applies, with ace high.
- When cutting for deal the cards now rank in their normal order with ace high, and the deal can be one or three cards at a time at the dealer's choice.
- The cards of the other suits rank in the normal way from ace high down to two, leaving out the cards of the trump rank.
- I put down my three of a kind ace high and leaned back.
- The deck is a standard American deck of fifty-two cards, ace high.

from on high

1From a very high place.
从高处
Example sentencesExamples
- The guests were met by a man serving drinks who told them Esther would make an appearance at 5pm, and then, lo and behold, there she was on a balcony saying hello from on high before descending.
- On days when there is a north westerly wind, I will be at the White Horse with my hang glider hoping to take to the air, enjoy the flying and the views of Westbury and the Wiltshire countryside from on high.
- From the balcony, there is a bird's eye view of Basingstoke, including the station - a surprisingly elegant building when viewed from on high.
- But since the observatory on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building reopened, it might be that the best way to decide what you want to see is to take a look at the city from on high.
- Some of us can recall when a daisy-cutter was a small, red ball skipping low across the turf, rather than a large black one containing several thousand pounds of penetrative explosives lobbed from on high.
1. 1.1From remote high authority or heaven.
  从高层（权威部门）；从高空；从天堂
  government programs coming down from on high
  从高层下发的中央政府计划。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Decisions are often made from on high and the person running the pub has very little say in how they can run the operation.
  One of the best things about this movement is that no one is handing down a manifesto from on high.
  All languages are human creations, not sent down from on high, and the words we invent change their meanings over hundreds of years.
  In the past decade, however, strategy and policy have increasingly been handed down from on high, with governors being required to implement such policy with no regard for their concerns over the dangers such implementation may pose.
  The inclusion of developing countries in a meeting of advanced industrialised countries reflects an awareness that elitist decisions cannot be imposed from on high without the cooperation of those whose interests they will affect.
  Nick's work with the homeless and the long-term unemployed, has won him recognition from on high, and I'm not just talking about the heavens.
  The decision has come from on high and there's not a lot we can do, really.
  Grassroots supporters in this region sent a clear signal at the weekend to the party ‘top brass’ that they do not like dictation from on high.
  It's odd to present results as if delivered on stone tablets from on high when there are such glaring discrepancies between polls.
  The overtly political lyrics have since been toned down, following a proclamation from on high that Eurovision songs should not be political in content.

high and dry

1Out of the water, especially the sea as it retreats.
不在水中（尤指海水退潮后）
when the tide goes out, a lot of boats are left high and dry
Example sentencesExamples
- The ark was a refuge until the waters went down, leaving Noah and his menagerie high and dry on Mount Ararat.
- Beadlet anemones are found in such shallow water that they are left high and dry at low tide.
- By carbon-dating sediments deposited in the lake's spillways or in marshes left high and dry by sudden drops in water, scientists can now chronicle the lake's changing profile.
- Environment Agency Fisheries Officers swung into action earlier this week to rescue thousands of fish left high and dry after recent river levels plunged after flooding.
1. 1.1In a difficult position, especially without resources.
  处境困难（尤指没有收入来源）
  when the plant shut down, hundreds of workers found themselves high and dry
  Example sentencesExamples
  More recently, policyholders were left high and dry when Blue Swan Insurance went into liquidation.
  Holidaymakers have been left high and dry at Heathrow Airport as staff walked out in a dispute over clocking on and off.
  This suggests yet another consequence of the cuts, which is that the women who are employed in the childcare sector will also be left high and dry now that their source of revenue has been seriously attenuated.
  Hundreds of south Essex pupils were today left high and dry again after two popular school bus routes were axed.
  The 130 people, many sick or elderly, were left high and dry in the French pilgrimage town after their tour operator, Bon Voyage, couldn't provide a plane on Sunday.
  It's a dangerous strategy to sell a hotel mainly on its fashionability: fashions change, and when they do, you're apt to be left high and dry.
  In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry.
  The scale of the crisis will become more evident on Tuesday when the watchdogs deliver their latest report, confirming that 60% of homeowners look set to be left high and dry.
  So far, trading standards officers in Oldham are trying to help 150 customers who feel they have been left high and dry by the company.
  And some fear they could be left high and dry if plans to move accident and emergency services from Burnley to Blackburn are also approved.
  Synonyms
  destitute, bereft, helpless, without help, without assistance, without resources, in the lurch, in difficulties, forsaken, abandoned, stranded, marooned

high and low

In many different places.
四处，各处
we searched high and low for a new teacher
我四处寻找一位新老师。
Example sentencesExamples
- I too have searched high and low for an English translation of the Thai Highway Code, to no avail.
- Before searching high and low for a buyer, you might consider donating the items to charity.
- I have searched high and low for it and have even been round to local shops, but no one has seen it.
- He and Grover had searched high and low for the letter yesterday, but it had been nowhere to be found.
- At the end of the day this crime is unprecedented, we are searching high and low to find who is responsible.
- Just about this very time four years ago rescue workers had been searching high and low for him.
- We searched high and low but there was no trace of the poor fellow and we had no choice but to continue.
- Their distraught owners, who have searched high and low for their missing pets, fear it is more than a coincidence.
- He is part of the family and we have been searching high and low for him.
- I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you and no one seemed to know where you were.
Synonyms
everywhere, all over, all around, in all places, in every place, far and wide, far and near, here, there, and everywhere, extensively, exhaustively, thoroughly, widely, broadly, in every nook and cranny

high and mighty

informal Thinking or acting as though one is more important than others.
〈非正式〉高傲的，盛气凌人的
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm so tired of her giving us those looks that make us feel inferior, and I'm tired of her acting all high and mighty.
- You might act all high and mighty, but I know your secret - your mother told me everything.
- Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad.
- You might think you're so high and mighty now because you married the master, but I know your beginnings.
- It's a little too easy to come on all high and mighty about insolvency when you've never been there yourself.
- I tried to act like everyone else in Warrington, high and mighty and convinced of my own superiority, but I couldn't pull it off.
- There have been a lot of great champions but he is just classy - he is never high and mighty in the locker room or anything like that.
- Who did she think she was, coming all high and mighty with me?
- You think you're so high and mighty, don't you?
- We'd have exactly the same problems here so I'm not going to get all high and mighty.
Synonyms
self-important, condescending, patronizing, disdainful, supercilious, superior, snobbish, snobby, haughty, arrogant, proud, conceited, above oneself, egotistic, egotistical, imperious, overweening, overbearing

high, wide, and handsome

informal Expansive and impressive.
〈非正式〉无忧无虑地

it is high time that —

It is past the time when something should have happened or been done.
早该是…的时候了
it was high time that she faced the facts
早该是她面对事实的时候了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fact that Ireland hasn't had a national agricultural policy since we joined the EU shows how complacent we have become and it is high time that we become more pro-active.
- I would suggest that it is high time that government reconsidered how it is going to deal with drug pushers, for current methods are expensive, fundamentally ineffective and deny funding in far more needy areas.
- The people themselves represent a powerful social resource, and it is high time that the federal government recognizes this.
- If politics is about people, it is high time that taxpayers saw some form of payback for the money they contribute to society.
- For a soccer-mad county like Waterford, 24 years is an eternity to be without a cup win and it is high time that that record was addressed and put right.
- It's high time the authorities considered giving rebates to people on long-term incapacity benefit.
- ‘Travel agents and tour operators operate a bonding system and it is high time that airline consumers had the same protection,’ Mr Brazil said.
- Devizes has got a big problem here and it is high time that the schools, the police and the youth club all worked together to find a solution.
- It's high time more draconian measures were brought in and quickly.
- I think it is high time that elected political representatives took a stand against this sort of behaviour.

on high

In or to heaven or a high place.
从高处
a spotter plane circling on high
在高空盘旋的侦察机。
Example sentencesExamples
- Someone on high wants it covered up and Brennan is determined to find out why.
- Someone on high must have decided that we've had more than our fair share of ruined bank holidays.
- How can anyone sit on high, preach the law and preach about justice and then send someone to their death?
- We managed, somehow, to keep our jobs, but alas, people on high had noticed and we were soon split up.
Synonyms
at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude

on one's high horse

informal Used to refer to someone's behaving in an arrogant or pompous manner.
〈非正式〉逞威风，摆架子
get down off your high horse
Example sentencesExamples
- I think one has to be very careful before getting on one's high horse and saying either that big schools present problems, or little schools are the only way to go.
- It's all very fine the FA getting on their high horse about streaming of live matches, but if a match is sold out and it's only being shown live in Spain, for example, how else is a fan expected to see it?
- I think you'd have to be a bit of an asshole to get on your high horse and say ‘no we don't wanna play any of the old stuff’ and only play songs off the new record.
- So maybe the FA should get their own house in order before climbing on their high horse.
- Before anyone gets back on their high horse, I have not missed a Sunday for church in something like nine years unless it is for weather, family emergency, or I am travelling.
- I just hope that the Minister, instead of getting on her high horse when I talked about the Food Safety Authority and the threat that it represents to a lot of dairy suppliers, will take those concerns more seriously.
- Don't get on your high horse Nellie - you know as well as I do that this marriage is a marriage in name only.
- Let me explain before you get on your high horse.
- Granted, you can be quirky and annoying when you get on your high horse about something, but at least you care.
- Before you start saying this is just a non-smoker getting on his high horse, let me explain.
Synonyms
proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself

run high

1(of a river) be full and close to overflowing, with a strong current.
（河流）水满的，高涨的；水流湍急的
Example sentencesExamples
- Floods also caused some rail services to be diverted, and the Environment Agency issued warnings via loudhailers that the River Sheaf near Sheffield's Midland Rail Station was running high.
- The river is running high, and the boats settle into the current south of the Wilson Bridge.
- It's spring in western Montana; the rivers are running high and the newspapers are running stories of capsized canoes and dogs washed away.
- The Grand River is running high and hard this morning.
- Homeowners and businesses in Sheffield and Doncaster had to pump water from downstairs rooms and cellars and loud hailers were used to warn businesses that the River Sheaf was running high close to Midland Station.
- The river ran high with a fast, central ribbon of foam.
Synonyms
be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense
1. 1.1(of feelings) be intense.
  （感情）强烈，剧烈
  passions run high when marriages break up
  当婚姻破裂、孩子们也牵扯进来时，情绪就激动起来了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is obviously an emotive issue, and emotions are currently running high.
  Ricketts said: ‘Confidence is running high in the camp and everyone is feeling a lot happier after our run of three wins in four games.’
  Whenever you have tensions running high and military forces in close proximity to each other, you have the potential for conflict.
  Passions have been running high in the Australian community with regard to her twenty-year sentence for drug trafficking; the majority of people believed she was innocent.
  Feelings are running high in Sligo at the moment and passions are only set to increase in the run-up to January 1.
  Passions continued to run high in the Italian city of Genoa last night despite the end of the G8 summit.
  In the final analysis, outsiders may wonder why passions are running so high on both sides of the divide.
  As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious.
  Emotions were running high and people were obviously worried about their jobs.
  Feelings are running high on all sides, with some farmers saying the crisis has been mishandled, while others have seemingly profited from distress by claiming compensation of more than £1 million each.
  Synonyms
  be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense

a high old time

informal A most enjoyable time.
they had a high old time at the clambake
Example sentencesExamples
- Undoubtedly we had four days of the highest quality jumps racing, and when the favourites win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup you would be entitled to conclude that the punters had a high old time of it.
- Barbecues sizzled (either rain or fat), guitars strummed and a high old time was had by all.
- The impetus behind the capital of culture project is to put Cork on the map and to give Cork's populace and visitors a high old time.
- He was haring about on his bike with stabilisers and having a high old time.
- He fidgets around the sofa, crossing his arms, chewing his lip and wearing a curious smirk that could either mean he's having a high old time or that he's never hated an interview more.
- They lived in a log cabin in the Rockies and fought Indians and rustlers and generally had what seemed to me a high old time.

Origin

Old English hēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoog and German hoch.

词汇	high
释义	Definition of high in English: high adjective hʌɪhaɪ 1Of great vertical extent. 高的 the top of a high mountain 高山之巅。 Example sentencesExamples Although the new policy is a little late for the downtown area, which is already over-crowded with high buildings, there is still a lot the city can do to improve the situation. Climatic effects are accentuated on the high elevations of these mountain ranges. Climbing and trekking are obvious income sources for countries endowed with high mountain ranges. In the centre of the 10 km deep crater is a mountain almost as high as Mount Everest. The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains. It was a place untouched by man, for the mountain was far too high, and far too treacherous. It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers. He said policing the gardens was difficult as they were secluded and surrounded by a high hedge and fence. The open area is secured by high boarding and is used for car parking. Sherpas, well known as mountain guides and porters, live in the high mountains of E. Nepal. Crystal clear streams flow down from the high mountains into the Datong River. Veteran climbers bemoan the increasing commercialisation of high peaks such as Everest and K2. In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches. They are planning to install high fences and replace the smashed windows, which have been boarded up. To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow. It's the one thing that will keep you going when that mountain seems just too high to climb. The conditions in the high mountains were hard and four of our group turned back. Watch the skies if you happen to be walking near any high buildings. Alice Springs is surrounded by high black mountains, similar to the mountains of Mecca. Old rocks predominate and high hills and mountains are more common. Synonyms tall, lofty, towering, soaring, elevated, giant, big multistorey, high-rise, sky-scraping 1.1 (after a measurement and in questions) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom. （用在量度单位之后，也用于问句）（测量从上到下的特定距离）…高度的 a tree forty feet high 一棵40英尺高的树。 Example sentencesExamples They say the company's proposal to build a 7m high building on the site, which backs on to a number of homes in Gilhams Avenue, is unnecessary and intrusive. The fox cleared a six-foot high fence to get among the chickens and would have killed them all had it not been disturbed. ‘How high is it?’ asked Holmes. ‘It is just over a metre high.’ On the west side of the rock is a vertical wall about 8m high, covered in white and orange anemones. The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet. Its ceilings are barely five feet high, because the only people who worked there were child labourers. North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov said the glacier was 150m high. The project aims to build 165 wind turbines, 400 feet high, in the hills above Tregaron. The alley was a dead end; the granite wall at the end was at least twelve feet high. Her tomato plants are more than four feet high and have given us a constant supply of tomatoes all summer. The two-and-a-half tonne boat was lowered down a sheer cliff 200 ft high. The New Year's Day wave passed just under the 30-metre high platform of the North Alwyn rig. It is only dangerous if you attempt to climb up on to the wall, which he seems to forget is about five feet high! Because of the extreme snow that had hit the region this winter, the snow was five feet high. Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs. Police closed the promenade in Blackpool to motorists as waves dozens of feet high pounded the seafront. In the middle of the field there was a square-shaped, flat-roofed building, about eight feet high. The structure was mounted between two walls, each 70 feet long and 50 feet high. He was not able to stand up in the space, which was about three feet six inches high. The tide was in, and the breakers were a good twenty to thirty feet high when they hit the harbour wall. 1.2 Far above ground, sea level, or another point of reference. 远离地面（海面或另一参照点）的 a palace high up on a hill 高据山头的宫殿。 Example sentencesExamples Remember that the overland trip will help you acclimatize to the high altitude. You enter a long narrow main room with a shimmering disco ball hanging from a high ceiling. Rare species of bird inhabit the higher branches of the trees. It's another gorgeous day. There were some high cirrus clouds earlier and it looks like they're coming back, but, for the most part, it's just been beautiful. At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized. Because of its high altitude, it is typically one of the first Scottish roads to be closed during bad winter weather. In common with the living room, the dining area has a high ceiling and a fireplace. It's more likely to occur if you're exercising in hot weather or at a high altitude. Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert. I didn't get a hint of back-ache from the driving seat, or from pulling gear in and out of the high luggage area. Few people have ever survived such a serious injury at such high altitude. Alpine plants are those that are naturally found in high altitudes. The speakers will be installed throughout the station in inaccessible or high areas to stop them being vandalised. The window was much too high up for her to reach, but unlike the one in the bathroom, it was large enough for her to squeeze through. This area has a wonderfully high ceiling and gets plenty of natural light through a large window and patio doors. Filming at high altitude in the Peruvian Andes wasn't always much fun. To the left of the reception hall is the drawing room with an attractive period fireplace, original wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows. Most sports utility vehicles are so high off the ground that your dog has to be virtually airborne or a St Bernard to be able to climb in. Ben knew Joe had a fear of heights, and the ledge was high off the ground. The plant is easy to propagate, and tolerates poor soil, high altitudes, and harsh climates. Synonyms in the air, in the sky, high up, up, up above, on high, overhead, above 1.3 Extending above the normal level. （比正常或平均水平）高的 a round face with a high forehead 高额圆脸。 Example sentencesExamples Dark curls, cropped close to his skull, give way to a high forehead and a strong jaw. Once in bog at the bottom of the coulee, one can see that the high grass is covered with grey silt. Beads of sweat formed on his high forehead. Michelle says that really I should have a fringe because I have a high forehead. Light brown hair was brushed back from a high forehead except for a few locks which fell forward. Possessing a high forehead and pale skin was the most important factor of Renaissance beauty. He had dark red hair and rather elven looking features - high cheekbones, sharp chin. Elsie was a petite woman with thick waves of dark hair and a high forehead. His hair was receding at the front and he had a high forehead. He was more curious about the decorated headband crowning the man's high forehead. The face is pale and perhaps slightly unearthly, with a high forehead sharply defined against red-gold hair. She wore her hair in a high bun and even applied a little kohl around her eyes and some red rouge on her cheeks and lips. Crossing his legs in front of him, he leans back against the high pillows and closes his eyes. Her broad flat forehead and high cheekbones catch the light from the windows behind them. The forehead is high and serious, and the hair, which one feels to be fine and thick and fair, drawn off it and lying close like a cap. There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin. Councillors in Melksham have backed a hairdresser's call for action over a dangerous high pavement in the town. In most patients with a high forehead, or in males with a receding hairline, the incision is placed at the frontal hairline. She's either not made up or has applied very subtle cosmetics to her high forehead and cute snub nose. The grass right now is thick and high, but there are rumours it's going to be cut down. 1.4attributive (of an area) inland and well above sea level. （地域或地形）内陆高地 high prairies 高地草原。 Example sentencesExamples This species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico, while a lighter-built species (Arctodus pristinus) with smaller teeth inhabited the more heavily wooded Atlantic coastal region. The traditional territory contains a diversity of landscapes with rugged mountains and numerous valleys and high prairies. 1.5attributive Performed at, to, or from a considerable height. 在（或至、从）高处 high diving 高台跳水。 Example sentencesExamples The leaps and jumps were high and spectacular to watch, yet the dancers made it appear effortless. Southall was finally booked for his second late and high lunge on the Norwegian Riise inside five minutes. Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting. In terms of risk, this is on a par with high diving into a piranha pool. 1.6 (of latitude) close to 90°; near the North or South Pole. （纬度）接近90°的；南北极附近的 high southern latitudes 接近南极的高纬度地区。 Example sentencesExamples It is found in the recently glaciated areas of the Northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere. The theory says the high latitudes should warm up more than the lower latitudes. Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes. These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins. They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator. 2Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity. （数量、大小或强度）大（或高）的，大（或高）于正常的 a high temperature 高温。 sweets are very high in calories 糖果与巧克力富含热量。 Example sentencesExamples The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand. Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter and the oil in a frying pan, add the mushrooms and fry over a high heat until golden brown. Cashews are high in protein and carbohydrate as well as being rich in vitamin A. My personal opinion on the speed limits of this country is that they are too high for residential areas. Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds. He added that staff would be asked to work extra hours to cope with the high volume of business during the festive period. This area has high unemployment, and mortality is above the national average. Although he was earning a relatively high salary, he found the job extremely stressful. This three-bedroom period house has been extended and renovated to a very high standard. Educational standards in the area are high, particularly among younger people. Many of us eat to excess and eat too many foods with a high sugar content. But one of the factors that made cancer treatment expensive was the high cost of the drugs. He said the area had a high percentage of children under four, and many parents were without family support. As a result, many people may find they are actually over-insured and paying unnecessarily high premiums. The chilly weather and high wind affected his performance, according to Zhang. Waves on Puget Sound were so high that day that only four crew members could row. Chickpeas are exceptionally high in protein and very low in fat, making them an ideal food. This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices. Staff are also expressing concerns over job security, high workloads and excessive hours. The firm says demand for industrial property from purchasers in the West Yorkshire area is high. Synonyms inflated, excessive, unreasonable, overpriced, sky-high, unduly expensive, dear, costly, top, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive British over the odds informal steep, stiff, pricey, over the top, OTT, criminal strong, powerful, violent, intense, extreme, forceful, sharp, stiff blustery, gusty, stormy, squally, tempestuous, turbulent rare boisterous 2.1 Of large numerical or monetary value. （数值或价值）高（或大）的 they had been playing for high stakes 他们一直在豪赌。 Example sentencesExamples It was one of the most daring missions of the Second World War - and the stakes had never been higher. But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card. It seems to me that many in the U.S. don't quite appreciate how high the stakes are. The first deal is decided between two opponents who each cut the cards - whoever cuts the higher card has the slight advantage of dealing first. You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost. The only difference is the stakes are significantly higher. 2.2 Very favourable. 良好的，赞许的，有利的 she had no very high opinion of men 她对男人没什么好评价。 Example sentencesExamples He does not hold the pastor in high regard and often considers his homilies burdensome. Self-esteem means having a high opinion of ourselves regardless of what we may or may not have done to earn it. We cannot have too low an opinion of ourselves or too high an opinion of Christ. The media baron has always had a high opinion of himself and a low one of many others. Mr Blass is looking forward to the operation being fully up and running in Sligo, an area he holds in high esteem. Hearing it again after years only confirmed my high opinion of the score. I have, as you know, an extremely high regard for the men and women in the Australian Defence Force. I am delighted he has been so impressed by our care and has such a high opinion of our staff. The fact that Britain's No 2 has a ferocious serve and a high opinion of his own abilities only makes matters worse. I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly. People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband. but, in common with other members of the family, he had a very high opinion of himself. Many people close to the club have a high opinion of him and we are quickly finding out why. You have always said you wanted to work with Sean Penn, because you had a very high opinion of him. The police are not held in high regard in some areas and their self-esteem and image have been damaged. The selectors have got a high opinion of Justin Marshall as a person and as a player. It did not take long for the cricketing community to realise why Cronje was admired and held in high esteem. I hold you in very high esteem, and have held you in very high esteem throughout that period. If you are in Government you appoint people whom you can work with, and whom you have a high opinion of. Like many people he doesn't have a very high opinion of them claiming that they were put on this planet to make solicitors look good! Synonyms favourable, good, positive, approving, admiring, complimentary, commendatory, appreciative, flattering, glowing, adulatory, approbatory, rapturous, full of praise rare panegyrical, acclamatory, laudative, encomiastical 2.3 Extreme in religious or political views. （宗教或政治观点）极端的，偏激的 a man of high Tory opinions 持极端保守观点的人。 Example sentencesExamples Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians. The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles. 2.4 (of a period or movement) at its peak. （时期或运动）在顶点的 high summer 盛夏。 Example sentencesExamples The leaves had lost the fresh green of early summer and taken on the darker bronzy tinge of high summer. This is one of the best spots in the country, but it's cold even in high summer. You can spot all these features from your cliff path when the water is clear during high summer. It gets so crowded here in high summer that there's often no room to sit down, let alone lay out a towel. As it progresses the music evokes images of South Sea islands in balmy high summer. The low winter sun is much more favourable for good photography than high summer brilliance. The existing public lavatory is used by 600 people a day in high summer. Spain's Balearic islands are now among the in places to see and be seen in high summer. The human body was the main preoccupation of High Renaissance artists and they often depicted it nude. If succulent plants are kept out in the high summer months then they get affected. In the blistering heat of high summer, it is literally too hot for study and so youngsters get a couple of months off. This is Yorkshire in high summer, so it's pouring with rain this morning. Moving into high summer, there are literally dozens of plants to choose from. The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer. It seems like only a fortnight ago it was high summer - hot sweaty summer - but now all of a sudden it's autumn. It was high summer when I was there and as the days rolled on and flawless blue sky followed flawless blue sky, it began to get a little boring. Don't go to Spain in high summer as it becomes very hot, especially away from coastal breezes. The air had been washed down, sweeping away the usual mist that hangs over the Greek Islands in high summer. The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance. It was high summer, and the grass shone green even as the powerful winds caused it to ripple and shimmer. 3Great in rank, status, or importance. （等级或地位）高级的，重要的 both held high office under Lloyd George 两位都在劳合·乔治手下任高级职务。 financial security is high on your list of priorities 金融安全列在你优先考虑事项的最前面。 Example sentencesExamples He also achieved a high position in the Academy at Geneva, becoming its rector. What is it like for a woman in Taiwan to rise to such a high position, and what challenges have you faced? At that point in time, the impending smoking ban and the effect it would have on drink sales were high on the agenda. Finding a permanent home for the campus is high on the university's agenda. Respect for the preservation of the environment was high on his sense of priorities. None of his are thought through, a dangerous fault for someone so high in Government. Politics is much more of a closed shop in Britain and Australia than it is in the US. You have to have go through a certain lengthy career path in the party and parliament before standing for any high office. Lydon has much to offer, but Woodward elevated him to high office incredibly early in his coaching career. Robert Altman has definitely made better films, but this one must rank high on the list. We have many women in high positions in the Church especially working in parishes. He stressed that other high positions in the organisation are filled by those committed to conservation. Arthur Balfour unexpectedly rewarded him by appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer, a higher office than he had ever received under the Liberals or the Lloyd George coalition. Getting water is high on everyone's list of priorities and takes up a good part of a resident's time. Press conferences are usually reserved for those higher in the chain of command. For someone in such a high position to dismiss and discount this argument is really worrying. Road traffic accident reduction is a high priority for North Yorkshire firefighters and our partners. In addition to housing and employment, education and tackling crime are also high on their agenda. He said this situation had put the issue of imports very high on the agenda. The escalating problem of unruly, yobbish behaviour is now high on the agenda for politicians of all persuasions. Frank just happened to have a family member who had a high position in Microsoft. Synonyms high-ranking, high-level, leading, top, top-level, prominent, eminent, pre-eminent, foremost, senior, influential, distinguished, powerful, important, elevated, notable, principal, prime, premier, chief, main, upper, ruling, exalted, illustrious North American ranking informal top-notch 3.1 Ranking above others of the same kind. 最佳的，出类拔萃的 the last High King of Ireland 最后一位卓越的爱尔兰国王。 Example sentencesExamples Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002. The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country. 3.2 Morally or culturally superior. 高尚的，崇高的；高雅的 blurring the distinctions between high art and popular art Example sentencesExamples The Czechs are nothing if not talented musicians with a deep love of fine culture and high art. The classics had a profound presence not only in the high culture, but in the inner lives of educated persons. Chapter 7 looks at the part that the Bible has played in high and popular culture. It would have been the kiss of death for his career - but if he really was motivated by high principles then at least he would know he had done the right thing. What his parents lacked in high culture, they made up for in political principles. Persian was the court language and the language of literature and of high culture. Once realized, this consciousness leads to an awareness of something higher than physical needs, emotional desires, and survival demands dictated by hormones or organs. Her films and writings establish an exchange between high and popular culture, art and commerce. One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture. This was a right old mish-mash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre. While he argues that the opposition of high and low art is wrong, he does so only because he doesn't know what high art is in the first place. Literature was no exception, and Shakespeare was eagerly received as the epitome of high culture. An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. It may not have been high art, but for sheer singalong spectacle and professionalism it was unbeatable. Lisa and I are off for an afternoon of high culture at the theatre. The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture. The new Millennium wing at the National Gallery represents the marriage of high ideals and fine art. During this period the gap between most forms of high culture and popular culture remained wide. Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture. Synonyms high-minded, noble-minded, lofty, moral, ethical, honourable, admirable, upright, principled, honest, virtuous, righteous excellent, outstanding, exemplary, exceptional, admirable, fine, great, good, very good, first-class, first-rate, superior, superlative, superb, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, meritorious, blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable, perfect, unequalled, unparalleled informal tip-top, A1, top-notch rare applaudable 4(of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range. （声音或音符）高音的 a high, squeaky voice 高而尖的声音。 Example sentencesExamples Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm. The sound of the drill is high and shrill and shatters the silence in my room. A high sing-song voice rang from the kitchen and a woman appeared. The best singers started their song at a low pitch to suit the range with which their voices are able to cope, and did not try songs which required them to reach high notes. The intro was played softly and her voice was high and sweet, singing the melody. A high whining sound came from the other end, and he held the phone away from his ear, rolling his eyes and grimacing. She has this really high shrill voice that makes me cringe every time she speaks. ‘You're hurt,’ she said in her high childish voice. All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch. Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity. As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter. Did you know that as human ears age, they lose the ability to pick up high pitches? Synonyms high-pitched, high-frequency, soprano, treble, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating 4.1 (of a singer or instrument) producing notes of relatively high pitch. （歌手或乐器）音调高的 a high soprano voice 女高音的高嗓音。 Example sentencesExamples The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano. The G clef is used for the upper staff of keyboard music, the soprano voice, and the high instruments (e.g. violin or flute). He wrote several so-called ‘concert’ arias, tailor-made for Aloysia's astonishing high soprano. His energy in concert was quite inspiring, each song found him stomping about the stage, singing in a high tenor with sparse instrumentation provided by an acoustic guitar. 5informal predicative Feeling euphoric, especially from the effects of drugs or alcohol. she wasn't tipsy, just a little high 她没醉，只是有点兴奋。 some of them were high on Ecstasy 他们中有些人已经因酒精和摇头丸而过度兴奋了。 Example sentencesExamples They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs. During the three-week trial the jury heard Giles, 19, was high on drink and drugs at the time of the attack. During some of these incidents he admitted to being high on heroin and cocaine. The defence lawyer noted that he was high on crack cocaine at the time of the stabbing. In fact, as the hours wore on, I found I was feeling charged and a little high with all the chocolate. He admitted that he had no idea what he was doing on the day of the murders because he was so high on drugs. It was also alleged he rang Miss A in the early hours telling her he was high on cocaine and that he wanted to perform a sex act with her. This witness also admitted to being high on crack cocaine, marijuana and beer the night of the killing. Once again a boorish minority, high on drugs or drink, is to blame. He used to come home high on marijuana and my little sisters were seeing him like that, so I have seen what drugs can lead to. I could tell that she had slept hardly at all during the day, she was probably still high from the night before. He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish. This wasn't the boy who seemed to be high on opium every time I met him. Maybe I am still high from all the joints I smoked earlier this evening. It was 2001 when Joe was physically attacked by a passenger he believes was high on drugs. Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, on drugs, drugged, stupefied, befuddled, delirious, hallucinating informal on a high, stoned, turned on, on a trip, tripping, hyped up, freaked out, spaced out, zonked, wasted, wrecked, high as a kite, off one's head, out of one's mind, flying, charged up North American informal blitzed, ripped US informal jacked 6predicative (especially of food) unpleasantly strong-smelling because beginning to go bad. （味道）刺鼻的，臭的（尤指食物开始变坏） it's a type of preserved butter, used for cooking, smells a little high Example sentencesExamples The cheese was rather high, and tended to crumble when we opened the tin, but it was quite edible. Synonyms gamy, smelly, strong-smelling 6.1 (of game) slightly decomposed and so ready to cook. （野味）略微变质得马上煮食的 Example sentencesExamples Mine are hung for no more than 2 or 3 days especially over the last few years what with the milder winters. Its a question of taste and how high you like your bird. The meat was quite high with complex strong flavours, which is just the way I like it. Synonyms gamy, smelly, strong-smelling 7Phonetics (of a vowel) produced with the tongue relatively near the palate. 〔语音〕（元音）舌位高的 Example sentencesExamples New York pronunciation has a long, tense, very round vowel in words like caught, and a long, tense, relatively high vowel in words such as cab. The symbol ‘i’ in IPA (as in most orthographies) denotes a high front vowel. noun hʌɪhaɪ 1A high point, level, or figure. 高点，高水平，高数字 commodity prices were at a rare high 商品价格之高确乎少有。 Example sentencesExamples With the summer heat hitting new highs and the air conditioner not functioning due to power restrictions, I decided that we would take a little expedition to the zoo. Gasoline prices continue to hit record highs and AAA says the national average for a gallon of self-serve regular now is $2.41. But over the week the Japanese yen leapt to new three-year highs of around Y110.90 against the dollar, signalling that policy may indeed have changed after all. The IPCC have said that the level of other greenhouse gases is also at an all time high. Jiangxi Province in East China has been hot since the beginning of July, with highs over 37 degrees Celsius almost every day. The banks' gloomy predictions come after the FTSE100 reached new highs in 2003 and its highest level since August 2002. With gasoline hitting new highs, motorists have been doing plenty of grousing at the pumps. Temperatures averaged almost 10 degrees above normal with highs reaching the low-to-mid nineties. The bureau said Monday was the hottest day of the year so far, with a record high of 37.8? This is a big worry, because mortgage debt and consumer credit figures keep hitting new highs every month. Similarly, by early January, the tech stocks that had led the Nasdaq to record levels had plummeted 35 percent from their December highs. However, economists believe the euro will continue to reach new highs against both the dollar and sterling in the coming months. Coogan's comments follow the publication of figures last week which showed that mortgage lending and levels of personal debt had reached all-time highs. In Finland, sea levels reached record highs, cutting off several coastal roads, but no major damage was reported. The jobless figures rose in every state except Western Australia, reaching highs of 9 percent in Queensland and 9.2 percent in Tasmania. However, with borrowing and debt levels at record highs, buoyancy in these areas could still crumble rapidly if the general view of the economy changes for the worse. Everyone knows about oil, but wholesale coal prices rose by 40% last year and metal prices, from copper to platinum, still regularly hit new highs. Records tumbled across Yorkshire yesterday as schools and colleges in the region saw A-level scores hit new highs. Equally, the proportion undertaking further study is at a record high. In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued. Synonyms high level, high point, record level, peak, record, high water mark top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, acme, apogee, apotheosis, culmination, climax, height, summit 1.1 A high-frequency sound or musical note. 高音，高音符 piercing highs and subterranean lows Example sentencesExamples From the mellow, dark low register to brilliant instrumental highs, his sound is beautiful - like musical crystal. Despite the electronics, the music is rather flat and uniform, lacking highs, lows and climaxes. I wanted to use something with plenty of highs and lows, and good use of bass. Excellent move, because the iRiver's audio quality remains one of the best on the market, with eardrum-busting bass notes or ethereal highs. The Harman / Kardon speakers produce deep, luscious bass and clear, crisp singing highs. Quite frankly I was pretty surprised that it sounded pretty good in both music and DVD's, with nice highs even without a single tweeter. Children are particularly sensitive to highs and lows, as well as pitch duration. The Scandinavian sound tends to be clean and full, with aching highs and a harmony that carries in both channels of stereo in a unique way. She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song. Like other Bose speaker products, its sound is huge, with tight, crispy highs and deep clean lows. 1.2 A high power setting. 强动力（设置），强挡 the vent blower was on high 通风口的吹风机开了强挡。 Example sentencesExamples A similar phenomenon occurs when you have a heater set on high in an overheated room with all the windows and doors closed. If you are griddling, preheat your ridged grill pan on high for five minutes. When the rice is cooked, microwave the cabbage on high for two to three minutes or until soft. Put the element on high until the water in the bottom pot is boiling, then turn down to medium. I lie in bed, clad in shorts and a tank top, with the fan on high and all the windows open. 1.3 An area of high barometric pressure; an anticyclone. 高气压区；高气压 Example sentencesExamples In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds. These intermittent highs effectively separate the northwestern trough from the deep-water regions of the Hatton-Rockall and Iceland Basins to the west. The high may move northward to cover Scotland or stay stuck just south of the UK. 1.4 Top gear in a motor vehicle. （机动车辆的）高速挡 the system lets you shift into 4WD high Example sentencesExamples While Sullivan hasn't reached Mikita and Savard's heights, he has recorded career highs in goals and points in this, his second season with the Hawks. 2A notably happy or successful moment. （显著的）幸福时刻，成功时刻 the highs and lows of life 人生的苦乐。 Example sentencesExamples It has been a long year for the Chancellor, one in which he has seen a number of highs, notably the birth of his son. It was a time of occasional highs and many lows - court appearances, television interviews, press conferences, parliamentary lobbies. She knows more about racing's highs and lows than anyone, having overcome all manner of hurdles to establish herself at the top of the sport. He believed that without lows you couldn't experience highs, and that by getting through our problems together, our relationship was strengthened. The crash was one of the lows in a career that has had many highs, notably winning the World Under-21 title in 1993. From his days as an amateur with the late Gordon Richards in the early 1970s, O'Neill has experienced dramatic highs and lows. It's important to remember that we all experience highs and lows in our fitness programs; it's how you deal with them that matters most. Like many players, I've experienced the highs and lows which go hand-in-hand with having a career in professional football. The awards give students the opportunity to experience the emotional highs and lows and the practicalities of a live performance. Three years of touring around America and experiencing the highs and lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle followed, with Mankowitz in effect becoming the seventh member of the band. In more than a quarter of a century of training, Luca Cumani has enjoyed many highs, including success in two Epsom Derbys, but also his fair share of lows. All in all, then, a talented performer with some notable career highs. From the depths of despair to the ecstatic highs, the Olympics coverage on the BBC has provided us with a roller coaster of emotions bringing out the best in live television over the last couple of weeks. Married in 1949 to a very successful businessman in India, she has experienced many highs and lows in her life. Most of these players had never experienced emotional highs and lows of such a magnitude in such a close time period. John will talk about his own background and experience, sharing the highs and lows of running a successful business. No candidate is more emotionally prepared for the exhilarating highs and debilitating lows of a presidential marathon. The controversial 27-year-old has suffered an all too familiar emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows. As well as the highs, Sheerin has experienced enough of life's lows to ensure he appreciates all that comes his way. Jacklin's life has been a roller-coaster of emotions, full of highs and lows. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight 2.1informal A state of high spirits or euphoria. 〈非正式〉（尤指毒品引起的）快感，兴奋（状态） if the stable is doing well then everybody's on a high 如果这群赛马跑得好的话，那就人人飘飘欲仙了。 golf provides him with an adrenalin high Example sentencesExamples She claims she now has more energy and inspiration, and is on a permanent natural high. All the tension and knots just disappeared and I was on a high for the rest of the day. If you are an adrenalin junkie, you can rest assured that the highs you get from a workout with this car will never be beaten by anything else with four wheels and a licence plate. The audience were whipped up into a frenzy of emotion that sent everyone home on a high. He neither drinks, nor smokes, preferring transcendental meditation to the highs attained through substance abuse. Then the homecoming we got in Galway, you'd be on a high for a week after it. He's gone for a lot of French players but French football is on a real high at the moment. It could have been better, but thankfully we finished on a high by winning the FA Cup. Most of the pilots were still on a high from the manner of the victory. Fortunately, I was on a high by now, and energy was pouring out of me. Cannabis does alter your mind. It can make you more irritable, or sometimes depress you, or sometimes put you on a high. There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high. I want to be clean and healthy and fit for my kids and have normal highs that aren't due to cocaine. Two trophies in his first six months in charge ensured the club ended last season on a high. One day she would be depressed and then the next day she would be on a high. With a World Cup just months away, England are determined to finish this Six Nations' campaign on a high. The neurotransmitter plays a major role in drug-induced highs and in addiction. By the end of the performance I'm absolutely starving and on a real adrenaline high. Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time. I was on a high for the rest of the night, and it lasted until the next day. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine/seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight excited, overexcited, hysterical, wild with excitement, frenzied informal blissed out, over the moon, on top of the world North American informal wigged out Australian/New Zealand informal wrapped rare corybantic 3North American informal High school. 〈非正式，主北美〉中学 I go to junior high 我上初中。 Example sentencesExamples I was supposed to be going into my sophomore year with all the friends that I had made last year in junior high. The soccer conversation ended as we arrived at the school parking lot of Clemington High. From the day he and I had met in the fifth or sixth grade, up until our final two years in junior high, we had both been fairly close and good friends. I took a couple of deep breaths, preparing myself for yet another day at Green County High, and then took off for my Algebra class. I was in the last year of primary school while my sister was in junior high. I grabbed his hand, wanting to listen to the song I had listened to back in junior high. I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger. I have been a diabetic since junior high and had to drink sissy diet sodas for years. Miller is not a musician, but he tried the trombone for one semester in junior high. She grew up on the North Shore, and met Billy Davie when she was still in junior high. Blake stopped the car in front of the junior high and Andy waved at some friends. She had secretly liked him since junior high and now she got to pretend to be with him. I've had this pen name since junior high, and it doesn't do a whole lot for me anymore. When we got to the top we would both talk about how life would be like when we were in junior high. And these were girls that Haylie had grown up with, in middle school and junior high. Back in junior high, the mall was the place where my friends and I spent most of our free time. He had gone to my elementary school, moved on to junior high, and I never saw him again. It's nothing for him to stop by a class room and spend an hour with kids at a local junior high. He has a new family and a job as head janitor in a junior high, but the past isn't through with him yet. We're both adults now and maybe formed a different idea about ourselves from who we were in junior high. adverb hʌɪhaɪ 1At or to a considerable or specified height. 在（或向）高处（或高度） the sculpture stood about five feet high 这雕塑约5英尺高。 a dish piled high with baked beans Example sentencesExamples Exploding gas tanks launched huge fireballs and black plumes of smoke high into the air. The cheap seats way up high are packed and, in the orchestra, there are just a few empties. Our main focus is on promoting young talent and we are developing this sponsorship to recognise individuals who aim high and work hard. At last they stopped to eat and rest again, as the sun reached its zenith high above. I was a little concerned that I would pitch my material too high or too low. Mr Bond said that before the council collected the mess this week it was piled five feet high against the wall of the flats. If you prefer the sun head to North Costa Blanca in Spain where, set high on a hill in the Jalon valley is a four bedroom villa with its own swimming pool and sun terrace just an hour from Alicante airport. But some governments placed it higher on their agendas than others. The shade in which they had been resting was rapidly disappearing as the sun rose high into the sky. Across the room stood a tower of vinyl albums stacked about 14 feet high. Dishes from yesterday's dinner are piled high in the sink. The decor is sparse and dated, but staff are friendly and keen to explain the different dishes. There is no wait service - you just grab a tray and pile it high. The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky and a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains. Any visit to his house was likely to involve a discussion about the placing of a sculpture or just how high on the wall a tapestry should hang. So, despite these edicts, new apartment houses continued to be built five or six storeys high. The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree. All of the larger lakes in Gran Canaria are situated high up in the mountains. The circular table in his office is piled high with newspapers and books that he intends to read if only he could find the time. In one corner of the room sat a desk and chair, both made of maple wood and piled high with various papers. Some athletes take steroids in the hopes that they will improve their ability to run faster, hit farther, lift heavier weights, jump higher, or have more endurance. He was balding, pudgy, pale and had his pants hitched up a little too high on his waist. Around ten minutes to three I observe a plane flying high overhead and heading out towards the Atlantic. Synonyms at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude in the air, in the sky, on high, aloft, overhead, above one's head, over one's head 2Highly. 高（高）地 he ranked high among the pioneers of chemical technology 在20世纪化学技术的先驱中他名列前茅。 Example sentencesExamples It has to be said that Pas de la Casa is boring, unless getting legless ranks high on your list. The only cities to rate higher on the index were London, Paris and Helsinki. The babies whose parents signed to them later scored higher on repeated tests of verbal ability. There is no great benefit from ranking high this year as next year there are no World Championships. He scored high on intelligence tests, is ambidextrous and is known as a hard worker. What is lacking are not the resources, but the political will. It is clear these topics do not rate very high on his agenda. People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function. 2.1 At a high price. 以高价 buying shares low and selling them high 低价买进股票，高价卖出。 Example sentencesExamples They are cashing in on demand from the North where the value of sterling keeps prices high. A cynic might argue that drug companies hold back the release of drugs to keep prices high. McKnight feels these factors will keep the price of the components high. Over the next few weeks advisers will be deciding how many shares to sell and how high to price them. Experts say that worries about security in the Middle East are also helping to keep prices high. It depends in part on how high the oil price goes and for how long. A resale ban makes it easier for producers to divide up the market and keep prices high. PC vendors may even keep their prices high and use the cuts to fatten their own margins. Conventional wisdom dictates that investors should buy low and sell high. At one time it had instituted proceedings against more than 130 banks for colluding to keep prices high. That is because there is no limit to how high a share price can rise. 3(of a sound) at or to a high pitch. 高声地，尖声地 my voice went high with excitement Example sentencesExamples Without realizing it, I had raised my voice high enough for the whole class to hear. I sang tenor and there was only like three of us in the whole school who could sing high like that. We, the campaigners for radical change, have to raise our voices high. My voice went high with excitement. ‘No!’ Stephanie raises her voice higher than she had anticipated. ‘That's not it at all!’ Phrases ace (or king or queen etc.) high (in card games) having the ace (or another specified card) as the highest-ranking. （纸牌游戏中）A牌（或K、Q等指明的大牌）最大 he had a hearts flush, queen high Example sentencesExamples I put down my three of a kind ace high and leaned back. Normal ranking of the cards applies, with ace high. The deck is a standard American deck of fifty-two cards, ace high. The cards of the other suits rank in the normal way from ace high down to two, leaving out the cards of the trump rank. When cutting for deal the cards now rank in their normal order with ace high, and the deal can be one or three cards at a time at the dealer's choice. from on high From remote high authority or heaven. 从高层（权威部门）；从高空；从天堂 central government programmes coming down from on high 从高层下发的中央政府计划。 Example sentencesExamples One of the best things about this movement is that no one is handing down a manifesto from on high. The decision has come from on high and there's not a lot we can do, really. All languages are human creations, not sent down from on high, and the words we invent change their meanings over hundreds of years. The overtly political lyrics have since been toned down, following a proclamation from on high that Eurovision songs should not be political in content. In the past decade, however, strategy and policy have increasingly been handed down from on high, with governors being required to implement such policy with no regard for their concerns over the dangers such implementation may pose. The inclusion of developing countries in a meeting of advanced industrialised countries reflects an awareness that elitist decisions cannot be imposed from on high without the cooperation of those whose interests they will affect. Nick's work with the homeless and the long-term unemployed, has won him recognition from on high, and I'm not just talking about the heavens. Grassroots supporters in this region sent a clear signal at the weekend to the party ‘top brass’ that they do not like dictation from on high. Decisions are often made from on high and the person running the pub has very little say in how they can run the operation. It's odd to present results as if delivered on stone tablets from on high when there are such glaring discrepancies between polls. high and dry 1Out of the water, especially stranded by the sea as it retreats. 不在水中（尤指海水退潮后） when the tide goes out, a lot of boats are left high and dry Example sentencesExamples By carbon-dating sediments deposited in the lake's spillways or in marshes left high and dry by sudden drops in water, scientists can now chronicle the lake's changing profile. The ark was a refuge until the waters went down, leaving Noah and his menagerie high and dry on Mount Ararat. Beadlet anemones are found in such shallow water that they are left high and dry at low tide. Environment Agency Fisheries Officers swung into action earlier this week to rescue thousands of fish left high and dry after recent river levels plunged after flooding. 1.1Without resources or help. your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner 你家会因养家糊口之人的去世而处境困难。 Example sentencesExamples It's a dangerous strategy to sell a hotel mainly on its fashionability: fashions change, and when they do, you're apt to be left high and dry. Hundreds of south Essex pupils were today left high and dry again after two popular school bus routes were axed. This suggests yet another consequence of the cuts, which is that the women who are employed in the childcare sector will also be left high and dry now that their source of revenue has been seriously attenuated. In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry. More recently, policyholders were left high and dry when Blue Swan Insurance went into liquidation. So far, trading standards officers in Oldham are trying to help 150 customers who feel they have been left high and dry by the company. Holidaymakers have been left high and dry at Heathrow Airport as staff walked out in a dispute over clocking on and off. The scale of the crisis will become more evident on Tuesday when the watchdogs deliver their latest report, confirming that 60% of homeowners look set to be left high and dry. And some fear they could be left high and dry if plans to move accident and emergency services from Burnley to Blackburn are also approved. The 130 people, many sick or elderly, were left high and dry in the French pilgrimage town after their tour operator, Bon Voyage, couldn't provide a plane on Sunday. Synonyms destitute, bereft, helpless, without help, without assistance, without resources, in the lurch, in difficulties, forsaken, abandoned, stranded, marooned high and low In many different places. 四处，各处 I searched high and low for a new teacher 我四处寻找一位新老师。 Example sentencesExamples I too have searched high and low for an English translation of the Thai Highway Code, to no avail. He is part of the family and we have been searching high and low for him. Just about this very time four years ago rescue workers had been searching high and low for him. I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you and no one seemed to know where you were. At the end of the day this crime is unprecedented, we are searching high and low to find who is responsible. I have searched high and low for it and have even been round to local shops, but no one has seen it. Their distraught owners, who have searched high and low for their missing pets, fear it is more than a coincidence. Before searching high and low for a buyer, you might consider donating the items to charity. We searched high and low but there was no trace of the poor fellow and we had no choice but to continue. He and Grover had searched high and low for the letter yesterday, but it had been nowhere to be found. Synonyms everywhere, all over, all around, in all places, in every place, far and wide, far and near, here, there, and everywhere, extensively, exhaustively, thoroughly, widely, broadly, in every nook and cranny high and mighty informal Behaving as though one is more important than others. 〈非正式〉高傲的，盛气凌人的 he could punish her for being high and mighty Example sentencesExamples Who did she think she was, coming all high and mighty with me? I tried to act like everyone else in Warrington, high and mighty and convinced of my own superiority, but I couldn't pull it off. Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad. There have been a lot of great champions but he is just classy - he is never high and mighty in the locker room or anything like that. We'd have exactly the same problems here so I'm not going to get all high and mighty. You might act all high and mighty, but I know your secret - your mother told me everything. It's a little too easy to come on all high and mighty about insolvency when you've never been there yourself. You might think you're so high and mighty now because you married the master, but I know your beginnings. I'm so tired of her giving us those looks that make us feel inferior, and I'm tired of her acting all high and mighty. You think you're so high and mighty, don't you? Synonyms self-important, condescending, patronizing, disdainful, supercilious, superior, snobbish, snobby, haughty, arrogant, proud, conceited, above oneself, egotistic, egotistical, imperious, overweening, overbearing the high ground A position of superiority (originally in military conflict) （源于军事冲突）优势地位，优越位置 he wants the EC to take the moral high ground by agreeing to an environmental tax Example sentencesExamples The homosexual community can't claim the high ground in the debate either. One of the most basic tenets of military strategy is never give up the high ground. Having started from a false premise it is difficult, if not impossible, to regain the high ground of scholarship. This could be one area where the Tories could seize the high ground, and I would welcome the mention of some concrete proposals in this area from the future leader to that effect. The rebel leaders had taken the high ground, and as many as 300 strong outnumbered the troops by approximately three to one. a high old — 〈非正式，主北美〉中学 informal attributiveUsed for emphasis. 〈非正式〉（用于强调）非常，很 a high old time of it we all had 我们都玩得非常开心。 Example sentencesExamples Having wound ourselves up into a high old state, this is just what we need. Despite too much warm white wine, not enough sleep and the traditional conference 'flu, most people in Bournemouth are having a high old time. He fidgets around the sofa, crossing his arms, chewing his lip and wearing a curious smirk that could either mean he's having a high old time or that he's never hated an interview more. Seventy three years ago today, the good folk of Bishopthorpe would have been getting themselves into a high old state. high, wide, and handsome informal Expansive and impressive. 〈非正式〉无忧无虑地 the resort's skiing is high, wide, and handsome it is high time that — It is past the time when something should have happened or been done. 早该是…的时候了 it was high time that she faced facts 早该是她面对事实的时候了。 Example sentencesExamples I would suggest that it is high time that government reconsidered how it is going to deal with drug pushers, for current methods are expensive, fundamentally ineffective and deny funding in far more needy areas. I think it is high time that elected political representatives took a stand against this sort of behaviour. ‘Travel agents and tour operators operate a bonding system and it is high time that airline consumers had the same protection,’ Mr Brazil said. For a soccer-mad county like Waterford, 24 years is an eternity to be without a cup win and it is high time that that record was addressed and put right. The people themselves represent a powerful social resource, and it is high time that the federal government recognizes this. The fact that Ireland hasn't had a national agricultural policy since we joined the EU shows how complacent we have become and it is high time that we become more pro-active. Devizes has got a big problem here and it is high time that the schools, the police and the youth club all worked together to find a solution. It's high time the authorities considered giving rebates to people on long-term incapacity benefit. It's high time more draconian measures were brought in and quickly. If politics is about people, it is high time that taxpayers saw some form of payback for the money they contribute to society. on high In or to heaven or a high place. 从高处 a spotter plane circling on high 在高空盘旋的侦察机。 Example sentencesExamples How can anyone sit on high, preach the law and preach about justice and then send someone to their death? Someone on high wants it covered up and Brennan is determined to find out why. We managed, somehow, to keep our jobs, but alas, people on high had noticed and we were soon split up. Someone on high must have decided that we've had more than our fair share of ruined bank holidays. Synonyms at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude on one's high horse informal Behaving in an arrogant or pompous manner. 〈非正式〉逞威风，摆架子 hell, boy, get down off your high horse Example sentencesExamples Granted, you can be quirky and annoying when you get on your high horse about something, but at least you care. Let me explain before you get on your high horse. Before you start saying this is just a non-smoker getting on his high horse, let me explain. Don't get on your high horse Nellie - you know as well as I do that this marriage is a marriage in name only. Before anyone gets back on their high horse, I have not missed a Sunday for church in something like nine years unless it is for weather, family emergency, or I am travelling. So maybe the FA should get their own house in order before climbing on their high horse. I think you'd have to be a bit of an asshole to get on your high horse and say ‘no we don't wanna play any of the old stuff’ and only play songs off the new record. It's all very fine the FA getting on their high horse about streaming of live matches, but if a match is sold out and it's only being shown live in Spain, for example, how else is a fan expected to see it? I just hope that the Minister, instead of getting on her high horse when I talked about the Food Safety Authority and the threat that it represents to a lot of dairy suppliers, will take those concerns more seriously. I think one has to be very careful before getting on one's high horse and saying either that big schools present problems, or little schools are the only way to go. Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself run high 1(of a river) be close to overflowing, with a strong current. （河流）水满的，高涨的；水流湍急的 the river was running high with the rain Example sentencesExamples It's spring in western Montana; the rivers are running high and the newspapers are running stories of capsized canoes and dogs washed away. The Grand River is running high and hard this morning. Floods also caused some rail services to be diverted, and the Environment Agency issued warnings via loudhailers that the River Sheaf near Sheffield's Midland Rail Station was running high. The river ran high with a fast, central ribbon of foam. The river is running high, and the boats settle into the current south of the Wilson Bridge. Homeowners and businesses in Sheffield and Doncaster had to pump water from downstairs rooms and cellars and loud hailers were used to warn businesses that the River Sheaf was running high close to Midland Station. Synonyms be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense 1.1(of feelings) be intense. （感情）强烈，剧烈 passions run high when marriages break up 当婚姻破裂、孩子们也牵扯进来时，情绪就激动起来了。 Example sentencesExamples Feelings are running high on all sides, with some farmers saying the crisis has been mishandled, while others have seemingly profited from distress by claiming compensation of more than £1 million each. Feelings are running high in Sligo at the moment and passions are only set to increase in the run-up to January 1. Passions have been running high in the Australian community with regard to her twenty-year sentence for drug trafficking; the majority of people believed she was innocent. This is obviously an emotive issue, and emotions are currently running high. In the final analysis, outsiders may wonder why passions are running so high on both sides of the divide. As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious. Passions continued to run high in the Italian city of Genoa last night despite the end of the G8 summit. Emotions were running high and people were obviously worried about their jobs. Whenever you have tensions running high and military forces in close proximity to each other, you have the potential for conflict. Ricketts said: ‘Confidence is running high in the camp and everyone is feeling a lot happier after our run of three wins in four games.’ Synonyms be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense Origin Old English hēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoog and German hoch. High is one of those small words that plays a part in a large number of expressions. In the calendar of the Christian Church there used to be two sorts of special day: a high day and a holiday. Holiday (Old English) was originally holy day and was a day set apart for religious observance. A high day was a much more important religious festival commemorating a particular sacred person or event. These together give us high days and holidays. Being high on drugs is associated with the 1960s, but the expression goes back at least to the 1930s. Alcohol can also be classed as a drug, and you can read of a man being ‘high with wine’ as early as 1627. The first records of high, wide, and handsome, ‘expansive and impressive’, are from US newspapers in the 1880s. In 1932 a book on Yankee Slang comments that it is a common shout at rodeos: ‘Ride him, Cowboy, high, wide, and handsome.’ The expression to be for the high jump might conjure up athletics, but behind it lies a much grimmer scene. It dates from the early 20th century, when it was a slang term used by soldiers to mean ‘to be put on trial before your commanding officer’. The image is actually of a person being executed by hanging, with the jump being the effect of the gallows trapdoor being suddenly opened beneath their feet. See also hog Rhymes ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai adj.1 phr. Definition of high in US English: high adjectivehīhaɪ 1Of great vertical extent. 高的 the top of a high mountain 高山之巅。 the mast was higher than the tallest building in the city 这根桅杆比该市最高的楼房还高。 Example sentencesExamples Crystal clear streams flow down from the high mountains into the Datong River. Climatic effects are accentuated on the high elevations of these mountain ranges. It's the one thing that will keep you going when that mountain seems just too high to climb. The conditions in the high mountains were hard and four of our group turned back. Veteran climbers bemoan the increasing commercialisation of high peaks such as Everest and K2. In the high mountains, where there are large falls of snow, there can also be avalanches. Alice Springs is surrounded by high black mountains, similar to the mountains of Mecca. The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains. He said policing the gardens was difficult as they were secluded and surrounded by a high hedge and fence. It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers. Old rocks predominate and high hills and mountains are more common. Climbing and trekking are obvious income sources for countries endowed with high mountain ranges. Sherpas, well known as mountain guides and porters, live in the high mountains of E. Nepal. Although the new policy is a little late for the downtown area, which is already over-crowded with high buildings, there is still a lot the city can do to improve the situation. To the south there are high mountains, covered in thick spring snow. Watch the skies if you happen to be walking near any high buildings. It was a place untouched by man, for the mountain was far too high, and far too treacherous. They are planning to install high fences and replace the smashed windows, which have been boarded up. In the centre of the 10 km deep crater is a mountain almost as high as Mount Everest. The open area is secured by high boarding and is used for car parking. Synonyms tall, lofty, towering, soaring, elevated, giant, big 1.1 (after a measurement and in questions) measuring a specified distance from top to bottom. （用在量度单位之后，也用于问句）（测量从上到下的特定距离）…高度的 a tree forty feet high 一棵40英尺高的树。 how high is the fence? Example sentencesExamples ‘How high is it?’ asked Holmes. ‘It is just over a metre high.’ They say the company's proposal to build a 7m high building on the site, which backs on to a number of homes in Gilhams Avenue, is unnecessary and intrusive. Police closed the promenade in Blackpool to motorists as waves dozens of feet high pounded the seafront. The two-and-a-half tonne boat was lowered down a sheer cliff 200 ft high. The project aims to build 165 wind turbines, 400 feet high, in the hills above Tregaron. He was not able to stand up in the space, which was about three feet six inches high. The New Year's Day wave passed just under the 30-metre high platform of the North Alwyn rig. The structure was mounted between two walls, each 70 feet long and 50 feet high. The alley was a dead end; the granite wall at the end was at least twelve feet high. The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet. It is only dangerous if you attempt to climb up on to the wall, which he seems to forget is about five feet high! Its ceilings are barely five feet high, because the only people who worked there were child labourers. In the middle of the field there was a square-shaped, flat-roofed building, about eight feet high. Because of the extreme snow that had hit the region this winter, the snow was five feet high. North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov said the glacier was 150m high. Her tomato plants are more than four feet high and have given us a constant supply of tomatoes all summer. Deep in the heart of Central India there is a wild forest surrounded by sheer 1,200 feet high cliffs. The tide was in, and the breakers were a good twenty to thirty feet high when they hit the harbour wall. The fox cleared a six-foot high fence to get among the chickens and would have killed them all had it not been disturbed. On the west side of the rock is a vertical wall about 8m high, covered in white and orange anemones. 1.2 Far above ground, sea level, or another point of reference. 远离地面（海面或另一参照点）的 a fortress high up on a hill 高据山头的宫殿。 Example sentencesExamples Alpine plants are those that are naturally found in high altitudes. It's another gorgeous day. There were some high cirrus clouds earlier and it looks like they're coming back, but, for the most part, it's just been beautiful. Because of its high altitude, it is typically one of the first Scottish roads to be closed during bad winter weather. Filming at high altitude in the Peruvian Andes wasn't always much fun. The speakers will be installed throughout the station in inaccessible or high areas to stop them being vandalised. Inland, a high central plateau drops eastward towards the vegetated dunes of the Kalahari Desert. Remember that the overland trip will help you acclimatize to the high altitude. To the left of the reception hall is the drawing room with an attractive period fireplace, original wooden floors, high ceilings and large windows. You enter a long narrow main room with a shimmering disco ball hanging from a high ceiling. Most sports utility vehicles are so high off the ground that your dog has to be virtually airborne or a St Bernard to be able to climb in. Few people have ever survived such a serious injury at such high altitude. This area has a wonderfully high ceiling and gets plenty of natural light through a large window and patio doors. It's more likely to occur if you're exercising in hot weather or at a high altitude. I didn't get a hint of back-ache from the driving seat, or from pulling gear in and out of the high luggage area. Ben knew Joe had a fear of heights, and the ledge was high off the ground. At high altitudes, the thin air makes it hard to breathe unless the cabin is pressurized. In common with the living room, the dining area has a high ceiling and a fireplace. Rare species of bird inhabit the higher branches of the trees. The window was much too high up for her to reach, but unlike the one in the bathroom, it was large enough for her to squeeze through. The plant is easy to propagate, and tolerates poor soil, high altitudes, and harsh climates. Synonyms in the air, in the sky, high up, up, up above, on high, overhead, above 1.3 Extending above the normal or average level. （比正常或平均水平）高的 a round face with a high forehead 高额圆脸。 Example sentencesExamples Elsie was a petite woman with thick waves of dark hair and a high forehead. She wore her hair in a high bun and even applied a little kohl around her eyes and some red rouge on her cheeks and lips. He was more curious about the decorated headband crowning the man's high forehead. The forehead is high and serious, and the hair, which one feels to be fine and thick and fair, drawn off it and lying close like a cap. Beads of sweat formed on his high forehead. Councillors in Melksham have backed a hairdresser's call for action over a dangerous high pavement in the town. His hair was receding at the front and he had a high forehead. He had dark red hair and rather elven looking features - high cheekbones, sharp chin. Crossing his legs in front of him, he leans back against the high pillows and closes his eyes. Michelle says that really I should have a fringe because I have a high forehead. She's either not made up or has applied very subtle cosmetics to her high forehead and cute snub nose. Her broad flat forehead and high cheekbones catch the light from the windows behind them. The face is pale and perhaps slightly unearthly, with a high forehead sharply defined against red-gold hair. In most patients with a high forehead, or in males with a receding hairline, the incision is placed at the frontal hairline. Once in bog at the bottom of the coulee, one can see that the high grass is covered with grey silt. Possessing a high forehead and pale skin was the most important factor of Renaissance beauty. There's the bold, aquiline nose, to be sure; the high, intelligent forehead and strong chin. The grass right now is thick and high, but there are rumours it's going to be cut down. Dark curls, cropped close to his skull, give way to a high forehead and a strong jaw. Light brown hair was brushed back from a high forehead except for a few locks which fell forward. 1.4attributive (of territory or landscape) inland and well above sea level. （地域或地形）内陆高地 high prairies 高地草原。 Example sentencesExamples The traditional territory contains a diversity of landscapes with rugged mountains and numerous valleys and high prairies. This species ranged the high grasslands of western North America from Alaska to Mexico, while a lighter-built species (Arctodus pristinus) with smaller teeth inhabited the more heavily wooded Atlantic coastal region. 1.5attributive Performed at, to, or from a considerable height. 在（或至、从）高处 high diving 高台跳水。 Example sentencesExamples Born in Thirsk in 192, he excelled early in a variety of sports, and became a champion in boxing, high diving, and pole vaulting. In terms of risk, this is on a par with high diving into a piranha pool. Southall was finally booked for his second late and high lunge on the Norwegian Riise inside five minutes. The leaps and jumps were high and spectacular to watch, yet the dancers made it appear effortless. 1.6 (of latitude) close to 90°; near the North or South Pole. （纬度）接近90°的；南北极附近的 high southern latitudes 接近南极的高纬度地区。 Example sentencesExamples The theory says the high latitudes should warm up more than the lower latitudes. They also occur more often in the winter and in the middle to high latitudes rather than near to the equator. It is found in the recently glaciated areas of the Northern hemisphere and high latitudes in the Southern hemisphere. These then flow from the high latitudes, circulating cool water throughout the world's ocean basins. Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes. 1.7Baseball (of a pitched ball) above a certain level, such as the batter's armpits, as it crosses home plate, and thus outside the strike zone. Example sentencesExamples Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals led off the top of the ninth inning with a high fly down the left field line. De los Santos uses a high fastball as his out pitch and has an average slider and splitter. He's focusing on balance to avoid lunging for high pitches out of the strike zone. In a year or two, he was able to hit the high fastball or at least take the pitch. Opponents try to tempt him with high fastballs out of the zone and breaking balls down and away. 2Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity. （数量、大小或强度）大（或高）的，大（或高）于正常的 a high temperature 高温。 fudge is high in calories Example sentencesExamples This often means they pay workers low wages and charge customers high prices. Although he was earning a relatively high salary, he found the job extremely stressful. Ten of those caught face a court appearance, mostly because they were clocked doing excessively high speeds. But one of the factors that made cancer treatment expensive was the high cost of the drugs. The normal purpose of any cartel is to keep prices high by controlling supply and demand. Cashews are high in protein and carbohydrate as well as being rich in vitamin A. My personal opinion on the speed limits of this country is that they are too high for residential areas. Meanwhile, melt the remaining butter and the oil in a frying pan, add the mushrooms and fry over a high heat until golden brown. Educational standards in the area are high, particularly among younger people. The chilly weather and high wind affected his performance, according to Zhang. Staff are also expressing concerns over job security, high workloads and excessive hours. Many of us eat to excess and eat too many foods with a high sugar content. He said the area had a high percentage of children under four, and many parents were without family support. Chickpeas are exceptionally high in protein and very low in fat, making them an ideal food. This three-bedroom period house has been extended and renovated to a very high standard. Waves on Puget Sound were so high that day that only four crew members could row. This area has high unemployment, and mortality is above the national average. As a result, many people may find they are actually over-insured and paying unnecessarily high premiums. The firm says demand for industrial property from purchasers in the West Yorkshire area is high. He added that staff would be asked to work extra hours to cope with the high volume of business during the festive period. Synonyms inflated, excessive, unreasonable, overpriced, sky-high, unduly expensive, dear, costly, top, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive strong, powerful, violent, intense, extreme, forceful, sharp, stiff 2.1 Of large numerical or monetary value. （数值或价值）高（或大）的 they had been playing for high stakes 他们一直在豪赌。 Example sentencesExamples The first deal is decided between two opponents who each cut the cards - whoever cuts the higher card has the slight advantage of dealing first. The only difference is the stakes are significantly higher. You are 65, but you played for high stakes over several years, and eventually you lost. It was one of the most daring missions of the Second World War - and the stakes had never been higher. It seems to me that many in the U.S. don't quite appreciate how high the stakes are. But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card. 2.2 Very favorable. 良好的，赞许的，有利的 nature had provided him with an admirably high opinion of himself Example sentencesExamples I hold you in very high esteem, and have held you in very high esteem throughout that period. I am delighted he has been so impressed by our care and has such a high opinion of our staff. Self-esteem means having a high opinion of ourselves regardless of what we may or may not have done to earn it. I have, as you know, an extremely high regard for the men and women in the Australian Defence Force. You have always said you wanted to work with Sean Penn, because you had a very high opinion of him. I don't mind you talking about me to your friends, but it doesn't seem any of them have a very high opinion of me. maybe rightly. We cannot have too low an opinion of ourselves or too high an opinion of Christ. People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband. The selectors have got a high opinion of Justin Marshall as a person and as a player. but, in common with other members of the family, he had a very high opinion of himself. The police are not held in high regard in some areas and their self-esteem and image have been damaged. If you are in Government you appoint people whom you can work with, and whom you have a high opinion of. Hearing it again after years only confirmed my high opinion of the score. Many people close to the club have a high opinion of him and we are quickly finding out why. He does not hold the pastor in high regard and often considers his homilies burdensome. The fact that Britain's No 2 has a ferocious serve and a high opinion of his own abilities only makes matters worse. It did not take long for the cricketing community to realise why Cronje was admired and held in high esteem. The media baron has always had a high opinion of himself and a low one of many others. Like many people he doesn't have a very high opinion of them claiming that they were put on this planet to make solicitors look good! Mr Blass is looking forward to the operation being fully up and running in Sligo, an area he holds in high esteem. Synonyms favourable, good, positive, approving, admiring, complimentary, commendatory, appreciative, flattering, glowing, adulatory, approbatory, rapturous, full of praise 2.3 Extreme in religious or political views. （宗教或政治观点）极端的，偏激的 the high Christology of the Christian creeds Example sentencesExamples Christina, like her mother and sister Maria, was a devout High Anglican, much influenced by the Tractarians. The most striking characteristic of this political approach is the author's patent partiality and clear adherence to high Tory principles. 2.4 (of a period or movement) at its peak. （时期或运动）在顶点的 high summer 盛夏。 Example sentencesExamples In the blistering heat of high summer, it is literally too hot for study and so youngsters get a couple of months off. It seems like only a fortnight ago it was high summer - hot sweaty summer - but now all of a sudden it's autumn. It gets so crowded here in high summer that there's often no room to sit down, let alone lay out a towel. The air had been washed down, sweeping away the usual mist that hangs over the Greek Islands in high summer. As it progresses the music evokes images of South Sea islands in balmy high summer. The low winter sun is much more favourable for good photography than high summer brilliance. It was high summer, and the grass shone green even as the powerful winds caused it to ripple and shimmer. Moving into high summer, there are literally dozens of plants to choose from. This is Yorkshire in high summer, so it's pouring with rain this morning. Don't go to Spain in high summer as it becomes very hot, especially away from coastal breezes. The leaves had lost the fresh green of early summer and taken on the darker bronzy tinge of high summer. You can spot all these features from your cliff path when the water is clear during high summer. The existing public lavatory is used by 600 people a day in high summer. It was high summer when I was there and as the days rolled on and flawless blue sky followed flawless blue sky, it began to get a little boring. The work is considered a masterpiece in the use of perspective and in the portrayal of the artistic ideals of the High Renaissance. This is one of the best spots in the country, but it's cold even in high summer. If succulent plants are kept out in the high summer months then they get affected. The human body was the main preoccupation of High Renaissance artists and they often depicted it nude. The passionate retelling of Shakespeare's tragic story is set in the Italian city of Verona during high summer. Spain's Balearic islands are now among the in places to see and be seen in high summer. 3Great in rank, status, or importance. （等级或地位）高级的，重要的 financial security is high on your list of priorities 金融安全列在你优先考虑事项的最前面。 he held high office in professional organizations Example sentencesExamples Road traffic accident reduction is a high priority for North Yorkshire firefighters and our partners. Arthur Balfour unexpectedly rewarded him by appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer, a higher office than he had ever received under the Liberals or the Lloyd George coalition. We have many women in high positions in the Church especially working in parishes. At that point in time, the impending smoking ban and the effect it would have on drink sales were high on the agenda. He said this situation had put the issue of imports very high on the agenda. He also achieved a high position in the Academy at Geneva, becoming its rector. For someone in such a high position to dismiss and discount this argument is really worrying. Robert Altman has definitely made better films, but this one must rank high on the list. Getting water is high on everyone's list of priorities and takes up a good part of a resident's time. What is it like for a woman in Taiwan to rise to such a high position, and what challenges have you faced? In addition to housing and employment, education and tackling crime are also high on their agenda. Press conferences are usually reserved for those higher in the chain of command. Frank just happened to have a family member who had a high position in Microsoft. Respect for the preservation of the environment was high on his sense of priorities. None of his are thought through, a dangerous fault for someone so high in Government. The escalating problem of unruly, yobbish behaviour is now high on the agenda for politicians of all persuasions. Lydon has much to offer, but Woodward elevated him to high office incredibly early in his coaching career. Finding a permanent home for the campus is high on the university's agenda. He stressed that other high positions in the organisation are filled by those committed to conservation. Politics is much more of a closed shop in Britain and Australia than it is in the US. You have to have go through a certain lengthy career path in the party and parliament before standing for any high office. Synonyms high-ranking, high-level, leading, top, top-level, prominent, eminent, pre-eminent, foremost, senior, influential, distinguished, powerful, important, elevated, notable, principal, prime, premier, chief, main, upper, ruling, exalted, illustrious 3.1 Ranking above others of the same kind. 最佳的，出类拔萃的 they announced the High Commissioner's retirement Example sentencesExamples The site was considered the capital of Ireland, when it became the seat of the High King, who would rule the dozens of kingdoms that had emerged across the country. Brian Ború was crowned King of Munster here in 977 and he became High King of Ireland in 1002. 3.2 Morally or culturally superior. 高尚的，崇高的；高雅的 they believed that nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness 他们相信驱动自然的不单纯是自私自利，而是更高尚的东西。 Example sentencesExamples What his parents lacked in high culture, they made up for in political principles. It may not have been high art, but for sheer singalong spectacle and professionalism it was unbeatable. Literature was no exception, and Shakespeare was eagerly received as the epitome of high culture. This was a right old mish-mash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre. Her films and writings establish an exchange between high and popular culture, art and commerce. It would have been the kiss of death for his career - but if he really was motivated by high principles then at least he would know he had done the right thing. Persian was the court language and the language of literature and of high culture. The classics had a profound presence not only in the high culture, but in the inner lives of educated persons. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. The Czechs are nothing if not talented musicians with a deep love of fine culture and high art. An occasional snobbery still persists - theatre is the high art, film its lesser cousin. The auteur's true genius lies in his ability to combine high art with popular culture. During this period the gap between most forms of high culture and popular culture remained wide. Once realized, this consciousness leads to an awareness of something higher than physical needs, emotional desires, and survival demands dictated by hormones or organs. Chapter 7 looks at the part that the Bible has played in high and popular culture. Popular taste is a good guide to the temper of the times, much more so than highbrow high culture. The new Millennium wing at the National Gallery represents the marriage of high ideals and fine art. While he argues that the opposition of high and low art is wrong, he does so only because he doesn't know what high art is in the first place. Lisa and I are off for an afternoon of high culture at the theatre. One final relevant feature of postmodernity is its mixture of popular and high culture. Synonyms high-minded, noble-minded, lofty, moral, ethical, honourable, admirable, upright, principled, honest, virtuous, righteous excellent, outstanding, exemplary, exceptional, admirable, fine, great, good, very good, first-class, first-rate, superior, superlative, superb, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, meritorious, blameless, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, unimpeachable, perfect, unequalled, unparalleled 4(of a sound or note) having a frequency at the upper end of the auditory range. （声音或音符）高音的 a high, squeaky voice 高而尖的声音。 Example sentencesExamples A high sing-song voice rang from the kitchen and a woman appeared. Her voice could reach such a high pitch, that it could actually cause a dog to lose its sanity. The best singers started their song at a low pitch to suit the range with which their voices are able to cope, and did not try songs which required them to reach high notes. Her voice was high and almost childish as she gave the man a playful swat on the arm. The sound of the drill is high and shrill and shatters the silence in my room. ‘You're hurt,’ she said in her high childish voice. All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch. Did you know that as human ears age, they lose the ability to pick up high pitches? The intro was played softly and her voice was high and sweet, singing the melody. As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter. She has this really high shrill voice that makes me cringe every time she speaks. A high whining sound came from the other end, and he held the phone away from his ear, rolling his eyes and grimacing. Synonyms high-pitched, high-frequency, soprano, treble, falsetto, shrill, acute, sharp, piping, piercing, penetrating 4.1 (of a singer or instrument) producing notes of relatively high pitch. （歌手或乐器）音调高的 a high soprano voice 女高音的高嗓音。 Example sentencesExamples The G clef is used for the upper staff of keyboard music, the soprano voice, and the high instruments (e.g. violin or flute). The cadenzas break down the quintet into low strings (cello and viola), high strings (the two violins), and piano. He wrote several so-called ‘concert’ arias, tailor-made for Aloysia's astonishing high soprano. His energy in concert was quite inspiring, each song found him stomping about the stage, singing in a high tenor with sparse instrumentation provided by an acoustic guitar. 5informal predicative Feeling euphoric, especially from the effects of drugs or alcohol. some of them were already high on alcohol and Ecstasy 他们中有些人已经因酒精和摇头丸而过度兴奋了。 he was high on an idea Example sentencesExamples He used to come home high on marijuana and my little sisters were seeing him like that, so I have seen what drugs can lead to. During some of these incidents he admitted to being high on heroin and cocaine. I could tell that she had slept hardly at all during the day, she was probably still high from the night before. He is fat, lazy, moody, gluttonous, horny and pretty much constantly drunk or high on hashish. During the three-week trial the jury heard Giles, 19, was high on drink and drugs at the time of the attack. The defence lawyer noted that he was high on crack cocaine at the time of the stabbing. In fact, as the hours wore on, I found I was feeling charged and a little high with all the chocolate. They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs. He admitted that he had no idea what he was doing on the day of the murders because he was so high on drugs. Maybe I am still high from all the joints I smoked earlier this evening. Once again a boorish minority, high on drugs or drink, is to blame. It was also alleged he rang Miss A in the early hours telling her he was high on cocaine and that he wanted to perform a sex act with her. It was 2001 when Joe was physically attacked by a passenger he believes was high on drugs. This wasn't the boy who seemed to be high on opium every time I met him. This witness also admitted to being high on crack cocaine, marijuana and beer the night of the killing. Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, on drugs, drugged, stupefied, befuddled, delirious, hallucinating 5.1 Intoxicated with drugs. （因吸毒）极其兴奋的，醉的 6predicative Unpleasantly strong-smelling, in particular (of food) beginning to go bad. （味道）刺鼻的，臭的（尤指食物开始变坏） Example sentencesExamples The cheese was rather high, and tended to crumble when we opened the tin, but it was quite edible. Synonyms gamy, smelly, strong-smelling 6.1 (of game) slightly decomposed and so ready to cook. （野味）略微变质得马上煮食的 Example sentencesExamples Mine are hung for no more than 2 or 3 days especially over the last few years what with the milder winters. Its a question of taste and how high you like your bird. The meat was quite high with complex strong flavours, which is just the way I like it. Synonyms gamy, smelly, strong-smelling 7Phonetics (of a vowel) produced with the tongue relatively near the palate. 〔语音〕（元音）舌位高的 Example sentencesExamples The symbol ‘i’ in IPA (as in most orthographies) denotes a high front vowel. New York pronunciation has a long, tense, very round vowel in words like caught, and a long, tense, relatively high vowel in words such as cab. nounhīhaɪ 1A high point, level, or figure. 高点，高水平，高数字 commodity prices were at a rare high 商品价格之高确乎少有。 Example sentencesExamples However, economists believe the euro will continue to reach new highs against both the dollar and sterling in the coming months. In Finland, sea levels reached record highs, cutting off several coastal roads, but no major damage was reported. The bureau said Monday was the hottest day of the year so far, with a record high of 37.8? Similarly, by early January, the tech stocks that had led the Nasdaq to record levels had plummeted 35 percent from their December highs. However, with borrowing and debt levels at record highs, buoyancy in these areas could still crumble rapidly if the general view of the economy changes for the worse. Equally, the proportion undertaking further study is at a record high. With the summer heat hitting new highs and the air conditioner not functioning due to power restrictions, I decided that we would take a little expedition to the zoo. The banks' gloomy predictions come after the FTSE100 reached new highs in 2003 and its highest level since August 2002. Coogan's comments follow the publication of figures last week which showed that mortgage lending and levels of personal debt had reached all-time highs. Everyone knows about oil, but wholesale coal prices rose by 40% last year and metal prices, from copper to platinum, still regularly hit new highs. But over the week the Japanese yen leapt to new three-year highs of around Y110.90 against the dollar, signalling that policy may indeed have changed after all. With gasoline hitting new highs, motorists have been doing plenty of grousing at the pumps. The IPCC have said that the level of other greenhouse gases is also at an all time high. Temperatures averaged almost 10 degrees above normal with highs reaching the low-to-mid nineties. Gasoline prices continue to hit record highs and AAA says the national average for a gallon of self-serve regular now is $2.41. Records tumbled across Yorkshire yesterday as schools and colleges in the region saw A-level scores hit new highs. The jobless figures rose in every state except Western Australia, reaching highs of 9 percent in Queensland and 9.2 percent in Tasmania. This is a big worry, because mortgage debt and consumer credit figures keep hitting new highs every month. In 2002, unemployment levels reached historic highs of 23 percent, real wages plummeted and the peso was severely devalued. Jiangxi Province in East China has been hot since the beginning of July, with highs over 37 degrees Celsius almost every day. Synonyms high level, high point, record level, peak, record, high water mark 1.1 A high-frequency sound or musical note. 高音，高音符 Example sentencesExamples Excellent move, because the iRiver's audio quality remains one of the best on the market, with eardrum-busting bass notes or ethereal highs. She improvised the notes, the highs and lows but still stuck to the original song. The Harman / Kardon speakers produce deep, luscious bass and clear, crisp singing highs. The Scandinavian sound tends to be clean and full, with aching highs and a harmony that carries in both channels of stereo in a unique way. Quite frankly I was pretty surprised that it sounded pretty good in both music and DVD's, with nice highs even without a single tweeter. From the mellow, dark low register to brilliant instrumental highs, his sound is beautiful - like musical crystal. Despite the electronics, the music is rather flat and uniform, lacking highs, lows and climaxes. I wanted to use something with plenty of highs and lows, and good use of bass. Children are particularly sensitive to highs and lows, as well as pitch duration. Like other Bose speaker products, its sound is huge, with tight, crispy highs and deep clean lows. 1.2 A high power setting. 强动力（设置），强挡 the vent blower was on high 通风口的吹风机开了强挡。 Example sentencesExamples I lie in bed, clad in shorts and a tank top, with the fan on high and all the windows open. Put the element on high until the water in the bottom pot is boiling, then turn down to medium. A similar phenomenon occurs when you have a heater set on high in an overheated room with all the windows and doors closed. If you are griddling, preheat your ridged grill pan on high for five minutes. When the rice is cooked, microwave the cabbage on high for two to three minutes or until soft. 1.3 An area of high atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone. 高气压区；高气压 Example sentencesExamples In the southern hemisphere it is the meeting place of the dry east to southeast winds generated by the subtropical highs, and the moisture-laden northwesterly monsoon winds. These intermittent highs effectively separate the northwestern trough from the deep-water regions of the Hatton-Rockall and Iceland Basins to the west. The high may move northward to cover Scotland or stay stuck just south of the UK. 1.4 Top gear in a motor vehicle. （机动车辆的）高速挡 Example sentencesExamples While Sullivan hasn't reached Mikita and Savard's heights, he has recorded career highs in goals and points in this, his second season with the Hawks. 2A notably happy or successful moment. （显著的）幸福时刻，成功时刻 the highs and lows of life 人生的苦乐。 Example sentencesExamples Three years of touring around America and experiencing the highs and lows of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle followed, with Mankowitz in effect becoming the seventh member of the band. It has been a long year for the Chancellor, one in which he has seen a number of highs, notably the birth of his son. From his days as an amateur with the late Gordon Richards in the early 1970s, O'Neill has experienced dramatic highs and lows. The controversial 27-year-old has suffered an all too familiar emotional rollercoaster ride of highs and lows. From the depths of despair to the ecstatic highs, the Olympics coverage on the BBC has provided us with a roller coaster of emotions bringing out the best in live television over the last couple of weeks. All in all, then, a talented performer with some notable career highs. She knows more about racing's highs and lows than anyone, having overcome all manner of hurdles to establish herself at the top of the sport. The crash was one of the lows in a career that has had many highs, notably winning the World Under-21 title in 1993. He believed that without lows you couldn't experience highs, and that by getting through our problems together, our relationship was strengthened. No candidate is more emotionally prepared for the exhilarating highs and debilitating lows of a presidential marathon. Most of these players had never experienced emotional highs and lows of such a magnitude in such a close time period. Like many players, I've experienced the highs and lows which go hand-in-hand with having a career in professional football. It's important to remember that we all experience highs and lows in our fitness programs; it's how you deal with them that matters most. In more than a quarter of a century of training, Luca Cumani has enjoyed many highs, including success in two Epsom Derbys, but also his fair share of lows. John will talk about his own background and experience, sharing the highs and lows of running a successful business. It was a time of occasional highs and many lows - court appearances, television interviews, press conferences, parliamentary lobbies. Married in 1949 to a very successful businessman in India, she has experienced many highs and lows in her life. As well as the highs, Sheerin has experienced enough of life's lows to ensure he appreciates all that comes his way. The awards give students the opportunity to experience the emotional highs and lows and the practicalities of a live performance. Jacklin's life has been a roller-coaster of emotions, full of highs and lows. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight 2.1informal A state of high spirits or euphoria. 〈非正式〉（尤指毒品引起的）快感，兴奋（状态） the highs I got from cocaine always ended in despair the team is still on a high from Saturday's victory Example sentencesExamples The audience were whipped up into a frenzy of emotion that sent everyone home on a high. She claims she now has more energy and inspiration, and is on a permanent natural high. One day she would be depressed and then the next day she would be on a high. I want to be clean and healthy and fit for my kids and have normal highs that aren't due to cocaine. Two trophies in his first six months in charge ensured the club ended last season on a high. With a World Cup just months away, England are determined to finish this Six Nations' campaign on a high. There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high. Fortunately, I was on a high by now, and energy was pouring out of me. Most of the pilots were still on a high from the manner of the victory. It could have been better, but thankfully we finished on a high by winning the FA Cup. He's gone for a lot of French players but French football is on a real high at the moment. Cannabis does alter your mind. It can make you more irritable, or sometimes depress you, or sometimes put you on a high. He neither drinks, nor smokes, preferring transcendental meditation to the highs attained through substance abuse. All the tension and knots just disappeared and I was on a high for the rest of the day. I was on a high for the rest of the night, and it lasted until the next day. Exhausted cyclist Sarah Ulmer is still on a high from taking gold at the Olympics in world record time. By the end of the performance I'm absolutely starving and on a real adrenaline high. The neurotransmitter plays a major role in drug-induced highs and in addiction. If you are an adrenalin junkie, you can rest assured that the highs you get from a workout with this car will never be beaten by anything else with four wheels and a licence plate. Then the homecoming we got in Galway, you'd be on a high for a week after it. Synonyms ecstatic, euphoric, delirious, elated, thrilled, overjoyed, beside oneself, walking on air, on cloud nine, on cloud seven, in seventh heaven, jumping for joy, in transports of delight, carried away, transported, rapturous, in raptures, exultant, jubilant, in a frenzy of delight 3North American informal High school (chiefly used in names) I enjoyed my years at McKinley High Example sentencesExamples I was in the last year of primary school while my sister was in junior high. We're both adults now and maybe formed a different idea about ourselves from who we were in junior high. I grabbed his hand, wanting to listen to the song I had listened to back in junior high. It's nothing for him to stop by a class room and spend an hour with kids at a local junior high. Back in junior high, the mall was the place where my friends and I spent most of our free time. Miller is not a musician, but he tried the trombone for one semester in junior high. Blake stopped the car in front of the junior high and Andy waved at some friends. When we got to the top we would both talk about how life would be like when we were in junior high. I've had this pen name since junior high, and it doesn't do a whole lot for me anymore. I took a couple of deep breaths, preparing myself for yet another day at Green County High, and then took off for my Algebra class. I have been a diabetic since junior high and had to drink sissy diet sodas for years. I was supposed to be going into my sophomore year with all the friends that I had made last year in junior high. I wanted to know because she looked old enough to be in junior high but acted so much younger. He has a new family and a job as head janitor in a junior high, but the past isn't through with him yet. From the day he and I had met in the fifth or sixth grade, up until our final two years in junior high, we had both been fairly close and good friends. She had secretly liked him since junior high and now she got to pretend to be with him. She grew up on the North Shore, and met Billy Davie when she was still in junior high. He had gone to my elementary school, moved on to junior high, and I never saw him again. The soccer conversation ended as we arrived at the school parking lot of Clemington High. And these were girls that Haylie had grown up with, in middle school and junior high. adverbhīhaɪ 1At or to a considerable or specified height. 在（或向）高处（或高度） the sculpture stood about five feet high 这雕塑约5英尺高。 Example sentencesExamples The female builds the nest, which is located on a horizontal branch high up in a conifer tree. Mr Bond said that before the council collected the mess this week it was piled five feet high against the wall of the flats. If you prefer the sun head to North Costa Blanca in Spain where, set high on a hill in the Jalon valley is a four bedroom villa with its own swimming pool and sun terrace just an hour from Alicante airport. In one corner of the room sat a desk and chair, both made of maple wood and piled high with various papers. The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky and a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains. All of the larger lakes in Gran Canaria are situated high up in the mountains. But some governments placed it higher on their agendas than others. Across the room stood a tower of vinyl albums stacked about 14 feet high. The cheap seats way up high are packed and, in the orchestra, there are just a few empties. The circular table in his office is piled high with newspapers and books that he intends to read if only he could find the time. I was a little concerned that I would pitch my material too high or too low. Some athletes take steroids in the hopes that they will improve their ability to run faster, hit farther, lift heavier weights, jump higher, or have more endurance. Around ten minutes to three I observe a plane flying high overhead and heading out towards the Atlantic. He was balding, pudgy, pale and had his pants hitched up a little too high on his waist. So, despite these edicts, new apartment houses continued to be built five or six storeys high. Our main focus is on promoting young talent and we are developing this sponsorship to recognise individuals who aim high and work hard. Dishes from yesterday's dinner are piled high in the sink. Any visit to his house was likely to involve a discussion about the placing of a sculpture or just how high on the wall a tapestry should hang. At last they stopped to eat and rest again, as the sun reached its zenith high above. The shade in which they had been resting was rapidly disappearing as the sun rose high into the sky. Exploding gas tanks launched huge fireballs and black plumes of smoke high into the air. The decor is sparse and dated, but staff are friendly and keen to explain the different dishes. There is no wait service - you just grab a tray and pile it high. Synonyms at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude 2Highly. 高（高）地 he ranked high among the pioneers of twentieth-century chemical technology 在20世纪化学技术的先驱中他名列前茅。 Example sentencesExamples The only cities to rate higher on the index were London, Paris and Helsinki. People who listen to Mozart then score slightly higher on specific tests of cognitive function. He scored high on intelligence tests, is ambidextrous and is known as a hard worker. What is lacking are not the resources, but the political will. It is clear these topics do not rate very high on his agenda. It has to be said that Pas de la Casa is boring, unless getting legless ranks high on your list. The babies whose parents signed to them later scored higher on repeated tests of verbal ability. There is no great benefit from ranking high this year as next year there are no World Championships. 2.1 At a high price. 以高价 buying shares low and selling them high 低价买进股票，高价卖出。 Example sentencesExamples Experts say that worries about security in the Middle East are also helping to keep prices high. A cynic might argue that drug companies hold back the release of drugs to keep prices high. They are cashing in on demand from the North where the value of sterling keeps prices high. That is because there is no limit to how high a share price can rise. PC vendors may even keep their prices high and use the cuts to fatten their own margins. At one time it had instituted proceedings against more than 130 banks for colluding to keep prices high. McKnight feels these factors will keep the price of the components high. Over the next few weeks advisers will be deciding how many shares to sell and how high to price them. Conventional wisdom dictates that investors should buy low and sell high. A resale ban makes it easier for producers to divide up the market and keep prices high. It depends in part on how high the oil price goes and for how long. 3(of a sound) at or to a high pitch. 高声地，尖声地 Example sentencesExamples Without realizing it, I had raised my voice high enough for the whole class to hear. ‘No!’ Stephanie raises her voice higher than she had anticipated. ‘That's not it at all!’ I sang tenor and there was only like three of us in the whole school who could sing high like that. My voice went high with excitement. We, the campaigners for radical change, have to raise our voices high. Phrases ace (or king or queen etc.) high (in card games) having the ace (or another specified card) as the highest-ranking. （纸牌游戏中）A牌（或K、Q等指明的大牌）最大 Example sentencesExamples Normal ranking of the cards applies, with ace high. When cutting for deal the cards now rank in their normal order with ace high, and the deal can be one or three cards at a time at the dealer's choice. The cards of the other suits rank in the normal way from ace high down to two, leaving out the cards of the trump rank. I put down my three of a kind ace high and leaned back. The deck is a standard American deck of fifty-two cards, ace high. from on high 1From a very high place. 从高处 Example sentencesExamples The guests were met by a man serving drinks who told them Esther would make an appearance at 5pm, and then, lo and behold, there she was on a balcony saying hello from on high before descending. On days when there is a north westerly wind, I will be at the White Horse with my hang glider hoping to take to the air, enjoy the flying and the views of Westbury and the Wiltshire countryside from on high. From the balcony, there is a bird's eye view of Basingstoke, including the station - a surprisingly elegant building when viewed from on high. But since the observatory on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building reopened, it might be that the best way to decide what you want to see is to take a look at the city from on high. Some of us can recall when a daisy-cutter was a small, red ball skipping low across the turf, rather than a large black one containing several thousand pounds of penetrative explosives lobbed from on high. 1.1From remote high authority or heaven. 从高层（权威部门）；从高空；从天堂 government programs coming down from on high 从高层下发的中央政府计划。 Example sentencesExamples Decisions are often made from on high and the person running the pub has very little say in how they can run the operation. One of the best things about this movement is that no one is handing down a manifesto from on high. All languages are human creations, not sent down from on high, and the words we invent change their meanings over hundreds of years. In the past decade, however, strategy and policy have increasingly been handed down from on high, with governors being required to implement such policy with no regard for their concerns over the dangers such implementation may pose. The inclusion of developing countries in a meeting of advanced industrialised countries reflects an awareness that elitist decisions cannot be imposed from on high without the cooperation of those whose interests they will affect. Nick's work with the homeless and the long-term unemployed, has won him recognition from on high, and I'm not just talking about the heavens. The decision has come from on high and there's not a lot we can do, really. Grassroots supporters in this region sent a clear signal at the weekend to the party ‘top brass’ that they do not like dictation from on high. It's odd to present results as if delivered on stone tablets from on high when there are such glaring discrepancies between polls. The overtly political lyrics have since been toned down, following a proclamation from on high that Eurovision songs should not be political in content. high and dry 1Out of the water, especially the sea as it retreats. 不在水中（尤指海水退潮后） when the tide goes out, a lot of boats are left high and dry Example sentencesExamples The ark was a refuge until the waters went down, leaving Noah and his menagerie high and dry on Mount Ararat. Beadlet anemones are found in such shallow water that they are left high and dry at low tide. By carbon-dating sediments deposited in the lake's spillways or in marshes left high and dry by sudden drops in water, scientists can now chronicle the lake's changing profile. Environment Agency Fisheries Officers swung into action earlier this week to rescue thousands of fish left high and dry after recent river levels plunged after flooding. 1.1In a difficult position, especially without resources. 处境困难（尤指没有收入来源） when the plant shut down, hundreds of workers found themselves high and dry Example sentencesExamples More recently, policyholders were left high and dry when Blue Swan Insurance went into liquidation. Holidaymakers have been left high and dry at Heathrow Airport as staff walked out in a dispute over clocking on and off. This suggests yet another consequence of the cuts, which is that the women who are employed in the childcare sector will also be left high and dry now that their source of revenue has been seriously attenuated. Hundreds of south Essex pupils were today left high and dry again after two popular school bus routes were axed. The 130 people, many sick or elderly, were left high and dry in the French pilgrimage town after their tour operator, Bon Voyage, couldn't provide a plane on Sunday. It's a dangerous strategy to sell a hotel mainly on its fashionability: fashions change, and when they do, you're apt to be left high and dry. In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry. The scale of the crisis will become more evident on Tuesday when the watchdogs deliver their latest report, confirming that 60% of homeowners look set to be left high and dry. So far, trading standards officers in Oldham are trying to help 150 customers who feel they have been left high and dry by the company. And some fear they could be left high and dry if plans to move accident and emergency services from Burnley to Blackburn are also approved. Synonyms destitute, bereft, helpless, without help, without assistance, without resources, in the lurch, in difficulties, forsaken, abandoned, stranded, marooned high and low In many different places. 四处，各处 we searched high and low for a new teacher 我四处寻找一位新老师。 Example sentencesExamples I too have searched high and low for an English translation of the Thai Highway Code, to no avail. Before searching high and low for a buyer, you might consider donating the items to charity. I have searched high and low for it and have even been round to local shops, but no one has seen it. He and Grover had searched high and low for the letter yesterday, but it had been nowhere to be found. At the end of the day this crime is unprecedented, we are searching high and low to find who is responsible. Just about this very time four years ago rescue workers had been searching high and low for him. We searched high and low but there was no trace of the poor fellow and we had no choice but to continue. Their distraught owners, who have searched high and low for their missing pets, fear it is more than a coincidence. He is part of the family and we have been searching high and low for him. I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you and no one seemed to know where you were. Synonyms everywhere, all over, all around, in all places, in every place, far and wide, far and near, here, there, and everywhere, extensively, exhaustively, thoroughly, widely, broadly, in every nook and cranny high and mighty informal Thinking or acting as though one is more important than others. 〈非正式〉高傲的，盛气凌人的 Example sentencesExamples I'm so tired of her giving us those looks that make us feel inferior, and I'm tired of her acting all high and mighty. You might act all high and mighty, but I know your secret - your mother told me everything. Even though his Mum was too high and mighty to keep visiting me he used to come by whenever he were near the place and I'm pretty fond of the lad. You might think you're so high and mighty now because you married the master, but I know your beginnings. It's a little too easy to come on all high and mighty about insolvency when you've never been there yourself. I tried to act like everyone else in Warrington, high and mighty and convinced of my own superiority, but I couldn't pull it off. There have been a lot of great champions but he is just classy - he is never high and mighty in the locker room or anything like that. Who did she think she was, coming all high and mighty with me? You think you're so high and mighty, don't you? We'd have exactly the same problems here so I'm not going to get all high and mighty. Synonyms self-important, condescending, patronizing, disdainful, supercilious, superior, snobbish, snobby, haughty, arrogant, proud, conceited, above oneself, egotistic, egotistical, imperious, overweening, overbearing high, wide, and handsome informal Expansive and impressive. 〈非正式〉无忧无虑地 it is high time that — It is past the time when something should have happened or been done. 早该是…的时候了 it was high time that she faced the facts 早该是她面对事实的时候了。 Example sentencesExamples The fact that Ireland hasn't had a national agricultural policy since we joined the EU shows how complacent we have become and it is high time that we become more pro-active. I would suggest that it is high time that government reconsidered how it is going to deal with drug pushers, for current methods are expensive, fundamentally ineffective and deny funding in far more needy areas. The people themselves represent a powerful social resource, and it is high time that the federal government recognizes this. If politics is about people, it is high time that taxpayers saw some form of payback for the money they contribute to society. For a soccer-mad county like Waterford, 24 years is an eternity to be without a cup win and it is high time that that record was addressed and put right. It's high time the authorities considered giving rebates to people on long-term incapacity benefit. ‘Travel agents and tour operators operate a bonding system and it is high time that airline consumers had the same protection,’ Mr Brazil said. Devizes has got a big problem here and it is high time that the schools, the police and the youth club all worked together to find a solution. It's high time more draconian measures were brought in and quickly. I think it is high time that elected political representatives took a stand against this sort of behaviour. on high In or to heaven or a high place. 从高处 a spotter plane circling on high 在高空盘旋的侦察机。 Example sentencesExamples Someone on high wants it covered up and Brennan is determined to find out why. Someone on high must have decided that we've had more than our fair share of ruined bank holidays. How can anyone sit on high, preach the law and preach about justice and then send someone to their death? We managed, somehow, to keep our jobs, but alas, people on high had noticed and we were soon split up. Synonyms at great height, high up, far up, way up, at altitude on one's high horse informal Used to refer to someone's behaving in an arrogant or pompous manner. 〈非正式〉逞威风，摆架子 get down off your high horse Example sentencesExamples I think one has to be very careful before getting on one's high horse and saying either that big schools present problems, or little schools are the only way to go. It's all very fine the FA getting on their high horse about streaming of live matches, but if a match is sold out and it's only being shown live in Spain, for example, how else is a fan expected to see it? I think you'd have to be a bit of an asshole to get on your high horse and say ‘no we don't wanna play any of the old stuff’ and only play songs off the new record. So maybe the FA should get their own house in order before climbing on their high horse. Before anyone gets back on their high horse, I have not missed a Sunday for church in something like nine years unless it is for weather, family emergency, or I am travelling. I just hope that the Minister, instead of getting on her high horse when I talked about the Food Safety Authority and the threat that it represents to a lot of dairy suppliers, will take those concerns more seriously. Don't get on your high horse Nellie - you know as well as I do that this marriage is a marriage in name only. Let me explain before you get on your high horse. Granted, you can be quirky and annoying when you get on your high horse about something, but at least you care. Before you start saying this is just a non-smoker getting on his high horse, let me explain. Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself run high 1(of a river) be full and close to overflowing, with a strong current. （河流）水满的，高涨的；水流湍急的 Example sentencesExamples Floods also caused some rail services to be diverted, and the Environment Agency issued warnings via loudhailers that the River Sheaf near Sheffield's Midland Rail Station was running high. The river is running high, and the boats settle into the current south of the Wilson Bridge. It's spring in western Montana; the rivers are running high and the newspapers are running stories of capsized canoes and dogs washed away. The Grand River is running high and hard this morning. Homeowners and businesses in Sheffield and Doncaster had to pump water from downstairs rooms and cellars and loud hailers were used to warn businesses that the River Sheaf was running high close to Midland Station. The river ran high with a fast, central ribbon of foam. Synonyms be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense 1.1(of feelings) be intense. （感情）强烈，剧烈 passions run high when marriages break up 当婚姻破裂、孩子们也牵扯进来时，情绪就激动起来了。 Example sentencesExamples This is obviously an emotive issue, and emotions are currently running high. Ricketts said: ‘Confidence is running high in the camp and everyone is feeling a lot happier after our run of three wins in four games.’ Whenever you have tensions running high and military forces in close proximity to each other, you have the potential for conflict. Passions have been running high in the Australian community with regard to her twenty-year sentence for drug trafficking; the majority of people believed she was innocent. Feelings are running high in Sligo at the moment and passions are only set to increase in the run-up to January 1. Passions continued to run high in the Italian city of Genoa last night despite the end of the G8 summit. In the final analysis, outsiders may wonder why passions are running so high on both sides of the divide. As always, passions will be running high at the start of the game and the play will be fast and furious. Emotions were running high and people were obviously worried about their jobs. Feelings are running high on all sides, with some farmers saying the crisis has been mishandled, while others have seemingly profited from distress by claiming compensation of more than £1 million each. Synonyms be strong, be vehement, be fervent, be passionate, be intense a high old time informal A most enjoyable time. they had a high old time at the clambake Example sentencesExamples Undoubtedly we had four days of the highest quality jumps racing, and when the favourites win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup you would be entitled to conclude that the punters had a high old time of it. Barbecues sizzled (either rain or fat), guitars strummed and a high old time was had by all. The impetus behind the capital of culture project is to put Cork on the map and to give Cork's populace and visitors a high old time. He was haring about on his bike with stabilisers and having a high old time. He fidgets around the sofa, crossing his arms, chewing his lip and wearing a curious smirk that could either mean he's having a high old time or that he's never hated an interview more. They lived in a log cabin in the Rockies and fought Indians and rustlers and generally had what seemed to me a high old time. Origin Old English hēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoog and German hoch. adj.1 phr.
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