terminus
音標(biāo)：
英音/ ?t??m?n?s /美音/ ?t??rm?n?s /

聽聽基本釋意：

見原文：https://engapi.com/article/4979

外刊例句：
These walls can feel like a terminus, defining the impassable limits of a prisonlike space.
這些墻壁感覺就像一個(gè)終點(diǎn)站，定義了監(jiān)獄般空間的不可逾越的界限。
—Washington Post

Those direct GWR services between London Paddington and Cardiff will be one an hour, and not the usual two, with the first service leaving each terminus halfway through the usual morning rush hour.
倫敦帕丁頓和卡迪夫之間的直達(dá) GWR 服務(wù)將每小時(shí)一班，而不是通常的兩班，第一班服務(wù)在通常的早高峰時(shí)間中途從每個(gè)終點(diǎn)站出發(fā)。
—BBC

Montgomery has allotted $110.2 million to build a southern entrance to the underground Bethesda Metro station at Wisconsin Avenue and Elm Street, near the western terminus for the street-level Purple Line.
蒙哥馬利已撥款 1.102 億美元，用于在威斯康星大道和埃爾姆街交匯處修建貝塞斯達(dá)地下地鐵站的南入口，靠近街道紫線的西端終點(diǎn)站。
—Washington Post

基本釋意：
noun
a place where something ends or is complete
終點(diǎn)；終點(diǎn)站；界標(biāo)；界石

同義詞：
end point,endpoint,termination,depot,terminal,destination,term,terminal figure

短釋義：
Ancient Romans worshiped Terminus as the god of boundaries, even performing sacrifices in his honor to bless objects that marked borders. You probably don’t have to go that far if you just want to use the noun terminus. You can use it as a weighty way to indicate something is at the end of the line, such as the last stop on a bus or train route. It most often refers to the end of a transportation route, but it can also be used more generally to mark the end point of other things — such as a marriage or a project.
考慮終點(diǎn)線的末端。無論是描述一個(gè)火車站、一個(gè)目標(biāo)還是一個(gè)時(shí)代，終點(diǎn)站都指的是某物的終點(diǎn)。

長(zhǎng)釋義：
Ancient Romans worshiped Terminus as the god of boundaries, even performing sacrifices in his honor to bless objects that marked borders. You probably don’t have to go that far if you just want to use the noun terminus. You can use it as a weighty way to indicate something is at the end of the line, such as the last stop on a bus or train route. It most often refers to the end of a transportation route, but it can also be used more generally to mark the end point of other things — such as a marriage or a project.
古羅馬人崇拜特米努斯作為邊界之神，甚至為他舉行祭祀以祝福標(biāo)記邊界的物體。如果您只想使用名詞終點(diǎn)，您可能不必走那么遠(yuǎn)。您可以使用它作為一種重要的方式來指示某物位于線路末端，例如公共汽車或火車路線的最后一站。它通常指交通路線的終點(diǎn)，但也可以更廣泛地用于標(biāo)記其他事物的終點(diǎn)，例如婚姻或項(xiàng)目。

文學(xué)例句：
The road hit the news last spring when flooding near its terminus at Prudhoe Bay closed it for 18 days.
去年春天，這條公路成為新聞焦點(diǎn)，當(dāng)時(shí)普拉德霍灣終點(diǎn)站附近發(fā)生洪水，導(dǎo)致公路封閉 18 天。
—This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways by ???

All of them lived in the hinterland of Marylebone railway terminus, in the typically straitened circumstances of the old London working class.
他們都生活在馬里波恩鐵路總站的腹地，處于舊倫敦工人階級(jí)典型的貧困環(huán)境中。
—Rich and poor by ???

The longest outing is a five-day, 31.8-mile journey from La Jolla to the southern terminus of the state, where hikers encounter rocky coastlines, swimming beaches, upscale towns, working-class villages and wildlife preserves.
最長(zhǎng)的郊游是從拉荷亞 (La Jolla) 到該州南部終點(diǎn)站的為期 5 天、31.8 英里的旅程，徒步旅行者會(huì)在那里遇到巖石海岸線、游泳海灘、高檔城鎮(zhèn)、工人階級(jí)村莊和野生動(dòng)物保護(hù)區(qū)。
—A New Guide to Hiking in California by Diane Daniel

詞源：
terminus?(n.)1550s, “goal, end, final point,” from Latin terminus (plural termini) “an end, a limit, boundary line,” from PIE *ter-men- “peg, post,” from root *ter-, base of words meaning “peg, post; boundary, marker, goal” (source also of Sanskrit tarati “passes over, crosses over,” tarantah “sea;” Hittite tarma- “peg, nail,” tarmaizzi “he limits;” Greek terma “boundary, end-point, limit,” termon “border;” Gothic tairh, Old English turh “through;” Old English tyrel “hole;” Old Norse tr?mr “edge, chip, splinter”). “The Hittite noun and the usage in Latin suggest that the PIE word denoted a concrete object which came to refer to a boundary-stone.” [de Vaan]In ancient Rome, Terminus was the name of the deity who presided over boundaries and landmarks, focus of the important Roman festival of Terminalia (held Feb. 23, the end of the old Roman year). The meaning “either end of a transportation line” is first recorded 1836.Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
terminus (n.)1550s，“目標(biāo)、結(jié)束、最終點(diǎn)”，來自拉丁語 terminus（復(fù)數(shù) termini）“終點(diǎn)、界限、邊界線”，來自 PIE *ter-men-“釘子、柱子”，來自詞根 * ter-，詞根，意思是“釘子、柱子；邊界、標(biāo)記、目標(biāo)”（也源自梵文 tarati“越過、越過”、tarantah“海”；赫梯 tarma-“釘子、釘子”、“tarmaizzi”他限制；” 希臘語 terma “邊界、終點(diǎn)、限制”，termon “邊界；” 哥特語 tairh，古英語 turh “通過”；古英語 tyrel “洞”；古挪威語 tr?mr “邊緣、碎片、碎片”）。 “赫梯語名詞和拉丁語中的用法表明，PIE 一詞表示一個(gè)具體的物體，后來指的是界石?！?[de Vaan]在古羅馬，Terminus 是掌管邊界和地標(biāo)的神的名字，是重要的羅馬節(jié)日 Terminalia（2 月 23 日舉行，古羅馬年結(jié)束）的焦點(diǎn)。 “運(yùn)輸線的任一端”的含義首次記錄于 1836 年。相關(guān)條目及更多