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

• 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 person loses consciousness completely and has convulsions.
  这人完全失去了知觉而且还在抽搐。
• Characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy.
  在怀孕期间惊厥或昏迷。
• 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 administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma.
  服用足够量的卡地阿唑以导致抽搐和昏迷的休克疗法。
• 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 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。
• And when the convulsions stopped, he was dead.
  当抽搐停止以后，他就死了。
• 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。
• Her nervous illness often threw her into convulsions.
  她的神经疾患往往使她痉挛。