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 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。
• Pre-eclampsia should be detected and appropriately managed before the onset of convulsions ( eclampsia) and other life-threatening complications.
  在惊厥（子痫）以及其他危及生命的并发症发作前，应发现并适当控制子痫先兆。
• As an inhibitor of the nervous system enzyme acetylcholinesterase, sarin can cause convulsions, stoppage of breathing and death.
  作为一种神经系统乙酰胆碱酯酶的抑制剂，沙林可导致抽搐、呼吸停止和死亡。
• What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul?
  一个城市的痉挛和灵魂的惊骇比较起来，算得了什么？
• The leader's assassination led to political convulsions.
  领导人遇刺引起了政治动乱。
• And when the convulsions stopped, he was dead.
  当抽搐停止以后，他就死了。
• 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。
• The administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma.
  用强电流刺激大脑，从而导致抽搐和休克的治疗方法。
• Her nervous illness often threw her into convulsions.
  她的神经疾患往往使她痉挛。
• Wyman was absorbed in the convulsions of the insect.
  怀曼看毛虫乱蹦乱踢，正看得有劲。