1N-COUNT [usually singular]. 灭点,没影点(平行线在远处看起来会聚在一起的那一点) The vanishing point is the point in the distance where parallel lines seem to meet . 灭点,没影点(平行线在远处看起来会聚在一起的那一点)
The highway stretched out ahead of me until it narrowed to a vanishing point some miles away.
公路在我面前延伸开去,直至在几英里外的远处变成一个小点。
2N-UNCOUNT 消失点;尽头 If you say that something has reached vanishing point, you mean it has become very small or unimportant. 消失点;尽头
By 1973, this gap had narrowed almost to vanishing point.
到1973年,这一差距已缩小到几乎为零。
Everybody accepts that the threat has now shrunk to vanishing point.