boiling-point
n
1 temperature at which a liquid begins to boil 沸点. =>App 5 见附录5.
2 (infml 口) condition or state of great excitement 极度兴奋
The match has reached boiling-point. 比赛已进入高潮.
The board won't approve of the budget for this year's expenditures.
会议上将不会承认本年度的支出预算。
Perhaps the most extraordinary building of the nineteeth century was the Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851.