paroxysm
paroxysm 英 [ˈpærəksɪzəm] 美 [ˈpærəkˌsɪzəm]
n. （疾病周期性）发作；突发
名词复数:paroxysms
- A paroxysm is a convulsion or sudden fit, brought on because you're freaking out or coming down with something.
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- n. （疾病周期性）发作；突发
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1. All we have left is paroxysm, and when it subsides, there will be just one wisp of smoke . . . our inner fire will ravish all.
我们已经离开是突然发作，我们内心之火将迷住一切。
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2. Linton had sunk prostrate again in another paroxysm of helpless fear, caused by his father's glance towards him, I suppose: there was nothing else to produce such humiliation.
林惇又在一阵无能为力的恐惧中伏在地上，我想这是由于他父亲瞅了他一眼的缘故：没有别的可以产生这种屈辱。
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3. I swept it along the carpet, and then memory burst in: my late anguish was swallowed in a paroxysm of despair.
我顺着桌毯一拂，记忆跟着就来了：我原来的悲痛被一阵突然的绝望吞没了。
- paroxysm (n.) "sudden attack, convulsion," early 15c., from Middle French paroxysme (16c.), earlier paroxime (13c.), from Medieval Latin paroxysmus "irritation, fit of a disease," from Greek paroxysmos "irritation, exasperation," from paroxynein "to irritate, goad, provoke," from para- "beyond" (see para- (1)) + oxynein "sharpen, goad," from oxys "sharp, pointed" (from PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce" ). Non-medical sense first attested c. 1600. Related: Paroxysmal.
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