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

• Among those vertiginous research efforts was Project Excelsior, which sought to answer questions such as: Could someone escape from a high-flying aircraft or space capsule using a parachute?
  在这些令人眼花缭乱的研究工作，为项目怡东，试图回答这样的问题：请问有人从飞机在高空飞行或太空舱使用的降落伞逃生？
• 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。
• My small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown ( Diana Cooper)
  我的狭隘思想局限在人类世俗之中，不会在令人眩晕的空间和未知成份中迷失方向（戴安娜·库珀）
• It was a long way for us to catch up but in the past years demand for Spanish has experienced vertiginous growth.
  对我们来说，要迎头赶上任重而道远，不过在过去的岁月里，对西班牙语的需求经历了令人眩晕的增长。
• Just looking down from the top of a bus makes me feel vertiginous.
  光是从公共汽车顶上往下看，我都感到头晕。
• 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。
• In high season, there are 420 highly professional people on the payroll, which accounts for the vertiginous rates but also for the fact that you will probably want for nothing.
  在旺季，酒店内共有420名高度专业的员工，这就是客房价格高得令人眩晕的原因，但同时可能也是使你别无他求的原因。
• In fact, the Supreme Court was putting its seal on what has been a vertiginous shift in US society.
  事实上，最高法院是在对美国社会的一个令人目眩的转变盖棺定论。
• Chan, a 34-year-old high-school dropout, has one of Hong Kong's most vertiginous and challenging blue-collar jobs.
  陈，34岁，高中辍学生，是香港最令人眩晕，最具挑战性的蓝领工人之一。
• There was no cliff-edge vertiginous quality, no claustrophobia, no killing acoustic, no confusing of atmosphere with noise.
  这里没有悬崖峭壁般头晕目眩，没有幽闭，没有使人疲惫的声响，没有噪音的混乱。