convulsions

英 [kənˈvʌlʃənz]

美 [kənˈvʌlʃənz]

n.  痉挛; 抽搐; 动乱; 骚动
convulsion的复数

柯林斯词典

• 抽搐;痉挛
  If someone hasconvulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
• N-COUNT (国家、体系、组织发生的)动乱，骚乱
  If there areconvulsionsin a country, system, or organization, there are major unexpected changes in it.
  1. ...the political convulsions that led to de Gaulle's return to power in May 1958.
     促使戴高乐在1958年5月重新上台的政治动乱
  2. ...the great convulsion of the eighteenth century.
     18世纪的巨大动乱

双语例句

• And when the convulsions stopped, he was dead.
  当抽搐停止以后，他就死了。
• Infants may be unable to feed or drink and may also experience unconsciousness, hypothermia and convulsions.
  婴儿可能无法进食或喝水，并可出现失去知觉、低体温和惊厥。
• The doctor treated him for convulsions.
  医生医治了他的惊厥。
• High levels of nicotine, for instance, have been found to trigger convulsions in both animals and humans.
  例如已经发现尼古丁水平高可诱发动物和人类抽搐。
• The person loses consciousness completely and has convulsions.
  这人完全失去了知觉而且还在抽搐。
• The resulting spasms, seizures, convulsions and comas were supposed to jar her from her puerperal psychosis, the term then used in England for postpartum depression.
  人们认为，由此产生的痉挛、抽搐、惊厥和昏迷可以让她从产后精神病中恢复过来。当年在英格兰，产后精神病指的就是产后抑郁症。
• The behavioural changes as excitation, restlessness, tremors, and convulsions followed by paralysis observed in the treated larvae suggest a probable effect of the oils on their neuromuscular system.
  在处理的幼虫中观察到行为改变，如兴奋、坐立不安、颤抖、痉挛然后瘫痪，说明这两种油可能对其神经肌肉系统产生了影响。
• Her nervous illness often threw her into convulsions.
  她的神经疾患往往使她痉挛。
• The leader's assassination led to political convulsions.
  领导人遇刺引起了政治动乱。
• Wyman was absorbed in the convulsions of the insect.
  怀曼看毛虫乱蹦乱踢，正看得有劲。