height

• n. 高地；高度；身高；頂點

來自high的名詞形式。

height

height: [OE] Etymologically as well as semantically, height is the ‘condition of being high’. It was formed in prehistoric Germanic from *khaukh- (source of high) and *-ithā, an abstract noun suffix: combined, they came down to Old English as hēhthu. The change of final -th to -t seems to have begun in the 13th century. The spelling ei reflects the word’s pronunciation in Middle English times, when it rhymed approximately with modern English hate.
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height (n.)

Old English hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "high" (see high) + -itha, Germanic abstract noun suffix. Compare Old Norse hæð, Middle Dutch hoochte, Old High German hohida, Gothic hauhiþa "height." Meaning "distance from bottom to top" is from late 13c. Meaning "excellence, high degree of a quality" is late 14c. The modern pronunciation with -t emerged 13c., but wasn't established till 19c., and heighth is still colloquial.

1. The sudden height dizzied her and she clung tightly.

突然上升的高度讓她暈頭轉向，她抓得緊緊的。

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2. I think it's the height of bad manners to be dressed badly.

我認為衣著不當是最沒有禮貌的行為。

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3. A girl may fill out before she reaches her full height.

女孩子在長足個頭之前可能會發胖。

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4. I have never had a complex about my height.

我從來沒有擔心過自己的身高。

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5. The corridors there were painted chocolate-brown to shoulder height.

那裏的走廊從地麵到齊肩高的部分都漆成棕褐色。

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