apoplexy
apoplexy 英 [ˈæpəpleksi] 美 [ˈæpəˌplɛksi]
n. [医] 中风
名词复数:apoplexies
- Apoplexy is a sudden and often fatal fit resulting from blood vessels bursting in the brain. The 19th century character Madame Bovary became a widow because of it. Today, we generally call it "a stroke," but apoplexy sounds way better.
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- n. [医] 中风
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1. apoplexy struck him down.
他因患中风而死去。
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2. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the philosopher, died here today of apoplexy.
温芝元 译 魏玛，8月25日电 哲学家弗里德里希·威廉·尼采今天于魏玛因中风不幸身亡。
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3. Imagining the apoplexy that would seize him if he read the petition, I hesitated for a moment before signing.
想象一下，如果他看到这份请愿书，估计会像中风了一样定在那里，在签名之前我也犹豫了一下。
- apoplexy (n.) "sudden fit of paralysis and dizziness," late 14c., from Old French apoplexie or directly from Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek apoplexia, from apoplektos "disabled by a stroke, struck dumb," verbal adjective from apoplessein "to strike down and incapacitate," from apo "off" (see apo-), in this case probably an intensive prefix, + plessein "to hit," from PIE root *plak- (2) "to strike" (source also of plague, which also has a root sense of "stricken"). The Latin translation, sideratio, means "disease caused by a constellation."
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