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 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。
• The doctor treated him for convulsions.
  医生医治了他的惊厥。
• Just a high fever and convulsions, which results from a virus upper respiratory tract inflection.
  只是病毒性上呼吸道感染引起的高烧和抽搐。
• Wyman was absorbed in the convulsions of the insect.
  怀曼看毛虫乱蹦乱踢，正看得有劲。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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 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。