vertiginous

英 [vɜːˈtɪdʒɪnəs]

美 [vɜːrˈtɪdʒɪnəs]

adj.  引起眩晕的

医学

BNC.33933 / COCA.27101

牛津词典

adj.

• 引起眩晕的
  causing a feeling of vertigo
  1. From the path there was a vertiginous drop to the valley below.
     从小路向谷底望去令人眩晕。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 陡峭的;峻峭的
  Avertiginouscliff or mountain is very high and steep.
  1. ...vertiginous cliffs that rise out of the Baltic.
     波罗的海周边耸立的悬崖峭壁

英英释义

adj

• having or causing a whirling sensation
  1. had a dizzy spell
  2. a dizzy pinnacle
  3. had a headache and felt giddy
  4. a giddy precipice
  5. feeling woozy from the blow on his head
  6. a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
  Synonym:dizzygiddywoozy

双语例句

• Barely a commentator in the land overlooked the parallels between Mr Obama's impending presidency and that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933-each inheriting vertiginous situations.
  几乎美国所有的评论员都看出：奥巴马即将开始的总统任期，与1933年的富兰克林德拉诺罗斯福（FranklinDelanoRoosevelt）有相似之处&两人都继承了复杂多变的局面。
• My small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown ( Diana Cooper)
  我的狭隘思想局限在人类世俗之中，不会在令人眩晕的空间和未知成份中迷失方向（戴安娜·库珀）
• The forces of a rocket can divided into static forces and dynamic forces. The former are caused by constant external loads while the latter result from the vibration of the rocket's body induced by vertiginous loads.
  火箭的载荷可分为静载荷和动载荷，静载荷是由定常外力引起的箭体内力，动载荷是由随机或剧烈变化的外力激起的箭体振动响应载荷。
• There was no cliff-edge vertiginous quality, no claustrophobia, no killing acoustic, no confusing of atmosphere with noise.
  这里没有悬崖峭壁般头晕目眩，没有幽闭，没有使人疲惫的声响，没有噪音的混乱。
• From its vertiginous viewing galleries visitors look down on the great commercial city spread below them and across to the seemingly boundless dunes of the Empty Quarter.
  从令人眩晕的观景台上，游客可以看到这个商业城市的全貌，甚至可以看到鲁卜哈利沙漠无边无际的沙丘。
• A vertiginous height [ speed]
  令人眩晕的高度[速度]
• Chan, a 34-year-old high-school dropout, has one of Hong Kong's most vertiginous and challenging blue-collar jobs.
  陈，34岁，高中辍学生，是香港最令人眩晕，最具挑战性的蓝领工人之一。
• Research on Vertiginous Rate and Stagnant Rate of Turbine's Variable System
  汽轮机调速系统速度变动率和迟缓率的探讨
• Among those vertiginous research efforts was Project Excelsior, which sought to answer questions such as: Could someone escape from a high-flying aircraft or space capsule using a parachute?
  在这些令人眼花缭乱的研究工作，为项目怡东，试图回答这样的问题：请问有人从飞机在高空飞行或太空舱使用的降落伞逃生？
• Called Sirena, it made use of the kitchen of a defunct canteen-adding a dining room in the style of a wooden galleon, plus a vertiginous glass floor with an aquarium below.
  这个餐厅原是个废弃不用的食堂，诺维科夫在此基础上将其改装成了一个外观酷似木制大帆船的餐厅，还在令人晕眩的玻璃地板下面加了一个小小的“水族馆”。