suspended animation

英 [səˌspendɪd ænɪˈmeɪʃn]

美 [səˌspendɪd ænɪˈmeɪʃn]

n.  人事不省; 假死; 蛰伏状态

医学

牛津词典

noun

• 人事不省；假死
  the state of being alive but not conscious or active
• 蛰伏状态
  a feeling that you cannot do anything because you are waiting for sth to happen

柯林斯词典

• 蛰伏状态;冬眠
  Suspended animationis a state in which an animal is unconscious, with its body functioning very slowly, for example so that the animal can survive the winter.
• N-UNCOUNT 呆滞;一动不动;无生机
  If you describe someone as being in a state ofsuspended animation, you mean that they have become inactive and are doing nothing.
  1. She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise...
     她就那样呆呆地躺着，等待着黎明到来后起床。
  2. The Hague conference is in suspended animation.
     海牙会议处于停滞状态。

英英释义

noun

• a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death

双语例句

• I was in a state of suspended animation and it was enough that I had something to eat and a bed to lie on.
  我处于一种麻木状态中，只要有东西可以吃，有床可以睡，就行了。
• Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.
  有些动物，例如刺猬，冬季时会处于活动暂停状态。
• Suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.
  在非常干旱的时候机体的器官暂停活动，恢复潮湿后又恢复过来。
• Objective To explore the changes of permeabilities of rat's brains and the impact of propofol on it during suspended animation.
  目的探讨假死状态下大鼠脑组织血管通透性变化及异丙酚对它的影响。
• But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended& neither alive nor dead.
  但是说到假死状态，我们就需要第三种可能了-，既不是死亡也不是生存。
• The Doha round has been in suspended animation for too long.
  多哈回合陷入僵局太久了。
• It's not clear what's the right or best thing to say about suspended animation.
  正确的关于假死状态的说法，并不明确。
• The Matrix is fiction that envisions humans living their physical lives out in a state of suspended animation, like perpetual fetuses, while in their minds their lives progress in their imagination.
  骇客帝国是一个虚构的故事，展现了人类以一种假死的状态生活在自己的物质世界中，就像永久的胎儿一般。而他们的头脑想像着生活在继续着。
• Who was in suspended animation during the disaster.
  危机发生期间，他正处于生命暂停状态。
• The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.
  存在于大脑中的，能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。