capstone

1 As the rays of sunlight strengthened, the golden glow engulfed the entirety of the thirty-three-hundred-pound capstone. The mind of man... receiving enlightenment.

日光越来越强盛，金光吞没了整个三千三百磅重的尖顶石。

2 The nominee luncheon was a capstone for many on the long, often surreal awards trail.

3 A half-century later, “The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime” arrives as the capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching.

4 At the age of ninety-two, the high elder of European music has written a work that seems likely to stand not as an epilogue to his career but as its capstone.

5 After that, he’ll deserve our thanks — as will Ms. Borda, who has suggested that this project will be the capstone of her career.

6 By the time the collection was released, the great indie wave had already receded, and the two disks seemed like capstones on the genre’s most expansive—and marketable—moment.

7 For this, he needed equipment to manage intense radioactivities and, as a capstone, a nuclear reactor—the one nuclear technology that had eluded Lawrence’s grasp.

8 On Saturday at 6 p.m., the British saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael will perform; and at 8, the capstone show will feature the drummer Makaya McCraven, the vocalist Samara Joy and the writer Mahogany L. Browne.

9 The finale, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, was a fitting capstone to the evening: a remnant from the canceled Beethoven Festival that was planned for this past June, before COVID-19 changed everything.

10 “Mr. Dean plays this curious villain with a stylized spookiness — a sly sort of offbeat languor and slur of language — that concentrates spite. This is a haunting capstone to the brief career of Mr. Dean.”

11 The tap keeps flowing with the Nov. 9 release of the 23rd episode, Skyfall, which serves as the capstone of a year celebrating the Bond movies’ golden jubilee.

12 “As a historian, as a researcher, he earns an A. This capstone to his work on Concord will likely be cherished by future scholars.”

13 It was a heady capstone to a major month for Mr. Green.

14 Thus it was that 1915, the capstone year for his theory of relativity, ended with mixed emotions for Einstein.

1915年如期而至，这一年爱因斯坦的相对论达到了顶点，成功时的他也是百感交集。

15 Copeland’s performances here with Brooklyn Mack, one of several dancers of color at the Washington Ballet, was the capstone of one of Webre’s most significant successes: diversifying the company.

16 Which means, you are going to call Mr. Langdon and tell him to turn himself in, along with the pyramid and capstone.

这就意味着，你去给兰登先生打电话让他来这里，并带着金字塔和压顶石。

17 I don’t regret our time together, no matter how awful those last few months were, but I’ve moved on, and this letter is the capstone: this is the end.

18 The capstone of the Jefferson-Madison collaboration occurred at this volatile political moment—namely, their joint authorship of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

19 Anderson Tepper, in a profile of Condé for The New York Times, wrote that the novel “feels like a capstone work” to the author’s lengthy career.

20 Reid is now writing her next book, which she sees as the capstone to a “quartet” of books about women and fame.

1 顶点

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2 顶部

crowning top roof crown topping crownpiece

3 压顶石

skew

4 最高点

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5 拱顶石

keystone key quoin

6 冠石

coping stone

7 极致

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8 顶石

coping