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

• A cut in interest rates would lift the economy out of its current state of suspended animation.
  利率下降可能会使经济脱离目前的停滞状态。
• Exposure to a gas leak in an abandoned mine induced a former Army Air Corps officer to lapse into a form of suspended animation.
  由于呼吸到了废弃矿井中的泄漏气体，一名前陆军航空队军官陷入了一种假死状态。
• 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。
• Problems concerning death are suspended animation, vegetable and euthanasia.
  与死亡相关的问题有假死、植物人和安乐死，“安乐死”不是“受嘱托杀人”，应尽早立法保护。
• The Doha round has been in suspended animation for too long.
  多哈回合陷入僵局太久了。
• 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。
• FOR the eight years since NATO aircraft bombed Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia into submission, the Serbian province of Kosovo has been in a state of suspended animation.
  自北约飞机轰炸斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇（SlobodanMilosevic）治下的塞尔维亚（Serbia）迫其屈服后，8年来，塞尔维亚的科索沃（Kosovo）省就一直处于滞生（suspendedanimation）状态。
• 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。
• Who was in suspended animation during the disaster.
  危机发生期间，他正处于生命暂停状态。
• ( biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.
  （生物学）处在生物学的休息或者假死的状态。