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. => high
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.
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1. The sudden height dizzied her and she clung tightly.
突然上升的高度让她晕头转向，她抓得紧紧的。
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2. I think it's the height of bad manners to be dressed badly.
我认为衣着不当是最没有礼貌的行为。
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3. A girl may fill out before she reaches her full height.
女孩子在长足个头之前可能会发胖。
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4. I have never had a complex about my height.
我从来没有担心过自己的身高。
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5. The corridors there were painted chocolate-brown to shoulder height.
