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

• 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。
• The bedroom windows are floor to ceiling and Manhattan looms below like a vertiginous black-and-white movie.
  卧室的窗户是落地窗，曼哈顿隐约浮现在脚下，就像是一部变幻莫测的黑白电影。
• In high season, there are 420 highly professional people on the payroll, which accounts for the vertiginous rates but also for the fact that you will probably want for nothing.
  在旺季，酒店内共有420名高度专业的员工，这就是客房价格高得令人眩晕的原因，但同时可能也是使你别无他求的原因。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。