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

• 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。
• Chytridiomycosis causes lethargy and convulsions, and thickens the skin that frogs breathe through.
  壶菌病会引起嗜睡和惊厥，并使得青蛙呼吸通道皮肤增厚。
• The doctor treated him for convulsions.
  医生医治了他的惊厥。
• 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。
• 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。
• Tactile and auditory stimuli provoke convulsions with opisthotonos.
  触觉和听觉的刺激可诱使病牛惊厥和角弓反张。
• And when the convulsions stopped, he was dead.
  当抽搐停止以后，他就死了。
• 'I had some stomach convulsions, but I'm OK now,' he said.
  他说：我胃有点痉挛，这会儿好一点。
• Emotional convulsions seemed to have become the commonplaces of her history.
  感情上的震动在她的经历中似乎已经司空见惯了。
• Some people may be more likely to have febrile convulsions because they have inherited particular genes from their parents.
  有些人可能更可能有惊厥，因为他们继承了特定基因从他们的父母。