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 final solar convulsions will wipe out all life on the planet.
  太阳的最后灾变将把地球上的一切生命消灭干净。
• 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。
• 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。
• Effects range from headaches and vomiting to kidney failure and eventually coma, convulsions, and death.
  症状有头疼、恶心甚至还会出现昏迷、抽搐和死亡。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。