impulses

英 [ˈɪmpʌlsɪz]

美 [ˈɪmpəlsɪz]

n.  冲动; 心血来潮; 一时的念头; 脉冲; 冲击; 冲量; 推动力; 刺激
impulse的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 冲动;一时兴起的念头
  Animpulseis a sudden desire to do something.
  1. Unable to resist the impulse, he glanced at the sea again...
     他抑制不住冲动,又向海面瞥了一眼。
  2. He still couldn't understand the impulse that had made him confide in Cassandra...
     他仍然难以理解是什么样的冲动使他向卡桑德拉吐露了秘密。
  3. Wade resisted an impulse to smile.
     韦德强忍住想笑的冲动。
• 脉冲
  Animpulseis a short electrical signal that is sent along a wire or nerve or through the air, usually as one of a series.
• ADJ 一时兴起的;随兴的
  Animpulsebuy orimpulsepurchase is something that you decide to buy when you see it, although you had not planned to buy it.
  1. The curtains were an impulse buy.
     窗帘是一时兴起买下的。
• PHRASE 凭冲动;一时兴起
  If you do somethingon impulse, you suddenly decide to do it, without planning it.
  1. Sean's a fast thinker, and he acts on impulse...
     肖恩是个思维敏捷、行事随兴的人。
  2. After lunch she decided on impulse to take a bath.
     午饭后她突然兴起,决定洗个澡。

双语例句

• Self-Discipline – The ability to control and restrain impulses.
  自律&控制并抑制自己冲动的能力。
• Although truth and justice may be the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are others.
  虽然真理和正义是表现道德上勇气的最强有力的推动力，但还有其他的。
• In the course of time positive and negative acceleration impulses tend to cancel one another.
  在长时间中，正向和反向加速度冲击有互相抵消的趋势。
• The problem is to keep these impulses, without making war the outlet for them.
  问题是要控制这些冲动，不要使他们把战争做为他们的出路。
• It's one of the ways we monitor ourselves, control impulses and guide actions.
  它只是我们对自己进行调节、控制冲动和引导自己行为的一种方式。
• Hair cells convert sound waves into electrical impulses that can be interpreted by the brain.
  毛细胞将声波转换成可以被大脑分辨的电脉冲。
• No personal impulses can be felt in it; not a stroke has any verve.
  既见不到他个人的情感，也看不出有哪一笔下得生动有力。
• What inner turmoil my following all these impulses led to!
  我的内心在这整个的推动下导致混乱！
• ( physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS.
  （生理学）指神经元和神经冲动；从中枢神经系统将信息传送离开。
• Whether we are awake or dreaming interpret nerve impulses and posit causes for them according to their own needs.
  我们是否清醒，或者在做梦，解释了神经冲动，并且假定了，他们的原因，根据他们自己的需要。