spasm
spasm 英 [ˈspæzəm] 美 [ˈspæzəm]
n. [临床] 痉挛；抽搐；一阵发作
名词复数:spasms
- A spasm is a sudden constriction of a muscle or blood vessel. This idea can be generalized to anything that occurs suddenly and lasts a short while. Except for a brief spasm of yard work, you had a perfectly lazy Sunday.
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- n. [临床] 痉挛；抽搐；一阵发作
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1. The child in a spasm kept twitching his arms and legs.
那个害痉挛的孩子四肢不断地抽搐。
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2. A spasm of anguish shot through her, and she returned him no answer.
她不禁痛苦得全身一阵痉挛，没有答理他的话。
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3. Initially I could not understand why my hands and fingers were in spasm, then I remembered my physiology lectures, deliberately slowed my breathing rate and the 'tetany’ symptoms disappeared.
卢瑟福博士说，“开始，我不明白为什么我的手和手指在抽搐，后来我想起生理讲座，就有意地放慢呼吸速度，结果，‘抽搐’的症状消失了。”
- spasm (n.) late 14c., "sudden violent muscular contraction," from Old French spasme (13c.) and directly from Latin spasmus "a spasm," from Greek spasmos "a spasm, convulsion," from span "draw up, tear away, contract violently, pull, pluck," from PIE *spe- "stretch." Figurative sense of "a sudden convulsion" (of emotion, politics, etc.) is attested from 1817.
- spasm (v.) 1900, from spasm (n.). Related: Spasmed; spasming.
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