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

• From its vertiginous viewing galleries visitors look down on the great commercial city spread below them and across to the seemingly boundless dunes of the Empty Quarter.
  从令人眩晕的观景台上，游客可以看到这个商业城市的全貌，甚至可以看到鲁卜哈利沙漠无边无际的沙丘。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Third, you'll have the vertiginous sensation of your mind boggling.
  第三，你将有一种感到无法想象而造成的眩晕感。
• Barely a commentator in the land overlooked the parallels between Mr Obama's impending presidency and that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933-each inheriting vertiginous situations.
  几乎美国所有的评论员都看出：奥巴马即将开始的总统任期，与1933年的富兰克林德拉诺罗斯福（FranklinDelanoRoosevelt）有相似之处&两人都继承了复杂多变的局面。
• 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 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。
• Helping the new generation of Chinese architects climb a vertiginous learning curve has been satisfying.
  帮助新一代中国建筑师学会在过失中成长令人很有满足感。
• 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。