核心词议：
n. 极端；极度；尽头；绝境；非常手段；(复)extremities 四肢；手足
extremity 基本解释
n. 端点；尽头；手和足；极窘迫的境地
速记方法
知识扩展
词组短语 lower extremity下肢；upper extremity上肢
extremity 变化形式
复数： extremities
中文词源： extremity
精选例句
1、 In spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane.
尽管完全与世隔绝，她依然神智清醒。
常见考点例句：
- Donor fatigue and the extremity of the country 's poverty are now causing those hopes to wither .
- 然而随着捐助者的逐渐倦怠以及该国的极度贫困使得各种希望逐渐远去了。
- Since then , aznar , who runs a think tank and sits on the board of rupert murdoch 's news corp. , has distinguished himself mainly by the extremity of his rhetoric .
- 自那以后，阿兹纳尔掌管着一个智囊团，并在默多克新闻集团董事会中谋得一席之地，他一直主要是凭借他极端性的夸夸其谈来彰显自己。
- Situated in the north-west extremity of the north american continent , alaskais the largest state in theunited statesby area .
- 阿拉斯加位于北美大陆西北端，是美国面积最大的州。
- Consider africa , where nearly half of the top 60 countries in the failed states index are located , in most cases south of -- or at least at the southern extremity of -- the sahara .
- 想想非洲，失败国家指数年度排名（failedstatesindex）前60名中，几乎近一半都是在非洲，其中大多数位于撒哈拉大沙漠以南或者至少是在撒哈拉的最南端。
- The wily womb , in this account , " gets disconnected and angry , and wandering in every direction through the body , closes up the passages of the breath , and by obstructing respiration , drives them to extremity , causing all varieties of disease . "
- 狡猾的子宫被这样解释：“毫无系统，暴躁地在身体里四面八方地游走，关闭呼吸通道，通过阻碍呼吸作用把他们逼到绝境，从而引起各种疾病。”
