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

• It was a long way for us to catch up but in the past years demand for Spanish has experienced vertiginous growth.
  对我们来说，要迎头赶上任重而道远，不过在过去的岁月里，对西班牙语的需求经历了令人眩晕的增长。
• 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？
• 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
• Just looking down from the top of a bus makes me feel vertiginous.
  光是从公共汽车顶上往下看，我都感到头晕。
• Korea's industrial master planners failed to spot the risks of an over-valued currency, a weak financial system and vertiginous corporate debt that brought its economy crashing down.
  韩国的工业发展规划者未能发现被高估的货币、虚弱的金融系统和不稳定的企业债所面临的风险，而正是这些因素将其经济带入了低迷。
• 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。
• In fact, the Supreme Court was putting its seal on what has been a vertiginous shift in US society.
  事实上，最高法院是在对美国社会的一个令人目眩的转变盖棺定论。
• On the demand side, China's ravenous appetite for steel, iron ore, coal, petroleum, grains, oilseeds and so on pushed prices to vertiginous heights until its abrupt economic slowdown this year helped bring them crashing down again.
  在需求方面，中国对钢铁、铁矿石、煤、石油、谷类、油籽等商品庞大的渴求，将大宗商品价格推升至令人眩晕的高度，直到今年其经济突然放缓，才使这些价格再次急速回落。
• 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。
• The two skyscrapers were connected by a vertiginous walkway.
  那两座摩天大楼用一条令人发晕的空中走道连接。