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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Called Sirena, it made use of the kitchen of a defunct canteen-adding a dining room in the style of a wooden galleon, plus a vertiginous glass floor with an aquarium below.
  这个餐厅原是个废弃不用的食堂，诺维科夫在此基础上将其改装成了一个外观酷似木制大帆船的餐厅，还在令人晕眩的玻璃地板下面加了一个小小的“水族馆”。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。