apex

• n. 頂点；先端

ラテン語から。

apex (n.)

c. 1600, from Latin apex "summit, peak, tip, top, extreme end;" probably related to apere "to fasten, fix," hence "the tip of anything" (one of the meanings in Latin was "small rod at the top of the flamen's cap"), from PIE *ap- "to take, reach." Proper plural is apices.

1. At the apex of the party was its central committee.

同党の最高権力機関は中央委員会である。

2.The apex of the flames licked the crimson sky.

炎の舌先は緋色に巻かれた空を舐めている。

3. The Apex fare is ￡195 return.

割引往復航空券の価格は195ポンド。

4.He reached the apex of power in the early 1930 s.

彼は30年代初めに権力の頂点に達した。

5.Spring was the real apex of the year、summer was bathos.

春は四季を通じて真の頂点であり、夏は高潮後の低潮である。