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

• 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）
• 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？
• 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。
• The introduction of the philosophy, methodology and technology of CIMS will guarantee the power plants to adapt to the vertiginous power market.
  将CIMS的理念、方法、技术与体制改革之后的发电企业相结合，无疑会为发电企业迅速适应市场的变化提供强有力的保证。
• Both involve hazardous terrain to negotiate, above vertiginous falls to waves pounding on the rocks below.
  两处都是危险地带，需要历险，（尤指因在高或陡处而）令人眩晕的峭壁下，海浪拍打着下面的岩石。
• Observation about vertiginous patients 'nail fold and conjunctival microcirculation
  眩晕患者的甲皱与球结膜微循环观察
• Thousands of refugees are walking over the vertiginous mountains in search of food.
  数千名难民走在如悬云端的山巅寻找食物。
• 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。
• 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。
• Using the value of elliptical long axis and short axis determined by minimum enclosing rectangle based on cocoon edge image, the cocoon superficial area at discretional vertiginous angle can be measured.
  根据蚕茧的边缘图像，利用最小矩形法确定椭圆长轴和短轴的值，可以测量任意旋转角度的蚕茧表面积。