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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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 order to find out the vertiginous character of indoor formaldehyde concentration in a chilly area, a long investigation of indoor formaldehyde concentration variation was made in a fixed room.
  为确定寒冷地区室内空气甲醛浓度的不稳定性特征，在某一固定房间长期跟踪检测室内空气中甲醛浓度变化。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。