convulsive
convulsive 英 [kənˈvʌlsɪv] 美 [kənˈvʌlsɪv]
adj. 抽搐的；惊厥的；震动的；起痉挛的
- A convulsive movement is jerky and uncontrollable. A convulsive sob is the kind where your body shakes when you cry, and convulsive dance moves at a party might scare your partner away.
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- adj. 抽搐的；惊厥的；震动的；起痉挛的
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1. The fish gasped, then made one last convulsive leap, throwing itself in the direction of the river, and landed on the pavement with a thud.
那条鱼大口地喘气，然后做最后拼死一跳，将自己投向河的方向，结果砰地一声落在人行道上。
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2. Forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires, a convulsive agent of change.
满是死树的森林容易招致惨重的大火，这是一种具有骤发性动因的改变。
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3. Mr. Zubaidi, the inspector in Dhi Qar, compared the current crisis to the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad, a convulsive ransacking that shocked the world into action.
济加尔省的文物调查员祖拜迪，把当前危机比作首都巴格达国家博物馆的劫掠。 那次动荡的洗劫震惊了世界，并促使各国采取行动。
- convulsive (adj.) 1610s, "of the nature of or characterized by convulsion," from French convulsif, from Medieval Latin *convulsivus, from convuls-, past-participle stem of convellere "to pull away, to pull this way and that, wrench," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + vellere "to pluck, pull violently" (see svelte). Meaning "producing or attended by convulsions" is from 1700. Related: Convulsively.
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