Altitude、height、elevation这些名词均有“高度”之意。用法有所不同,以下做具体介绍:
Altitude:通常就是指海拔高度,也指离开地面的高度。
The aircraft had reached its cruising altitude of about 39,000 feet.飞机已到达约3.9万英尺的巡航高度。
Height:可以指任何物体可测量到的高度,可以指人的身高,也可以指物体上下的距离。
Please state your height and weight.请说明身高和体重。
You can adjust the height of the chair. 你可以调节椅子的高度
Elevation:主要指山丘、建筑等耸立在地面上物体的海拔高度,即(某地方的)高度;(尤指)海拔;也可以表示职位、身份等的提拔;晋级;提升
The city is at an elevation of 2 000 metres. 这座城市海拔2 000米。
His elevation to the presidency 他提升到校长的职位
We're probably at an elevation of about 13,000 feet above sea level.我们很可能在海拔13000英尺的高度
参考双语例句:
The main achievements of the mission were: (a) improved lunar global topography maps, detailed altitude and geological data which is provided to Google for free to make Google Moon 3-D; (b) a detailed gravity map of the far side of the Moon; and (c) the first optical observation of the permanently shadowed interior of the Shackleton crater at the lunar south pole.
这项飞行任务的主要成果是:(a)改进了全月地貌图,其中详细的高度和地质数据无偿提供给了谷歌,用于制作谷歌三维月球图;(b)制作了月球背面详细的重力图;(c)对月球南极沙克尔顿环形山始终背光的内部进行了首次光学观察。
For example, we may use Web site analytics tools to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our Website, the pages you view within the Website, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height.
例如,我们可能使用网站分析工具从您的浏览器检索信息,包括您来自哪个网站、您查找到我们的网站所使用的搜索引擎和关键字、您在网站内查看了哪些页面、浏览器加载项以及浏览器的宽度和高度。
The impact of climate change will be disproportionately high for urban dwellers, since 13 per cent of the world’s urban population live in low-elevation coastal zones in many of the world’s largest cities, especially in Asia.
气候变化对城市居民的影响特别大,因为世界城市人口中有13%居住在许多世界最大城市,特别是亚洲的低海拔沿海地区。
Dr. Bhandari practised law primarily in the Supreme Court of India on civil, criminal, constitutional, corporate, election and central excise branches of law since 1977, till his elevation as a judge in the High Court of Delhi.
从 1977 年开始,他主要在印度最高法院的民法、刑法、宪法、公司法、选举法和中央消费税法等法律部门工作,直至被提拔为德里高等法院法官。