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jolt

/johlt/US // dʒoʊlt //UK // (dʒəʊlt) //

颠簸,冲击,颠覆,摇晃

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to jar, shake, or cause to move by or as if by a sudden rough thrust; shake up roughly: The bus jolted its passengers as it went down the rocky road.
    • : to knock sharply so as to dislodge: He jolted the nail free with a stone.
    • : to stun with a blow, especially in boxing.
    • : to shock emotionally or psychologically: His sudden death jolted us all.
    • : to bring to a desired state sharply or abruptly: to jolt a person into awareness.
    • : to make active or alert, as by using an abrupt, sharp, or rough manner: to jolt someone's memory.
    • : to interfere with or intrude upon, especially in a rough or crude manner; interrupt disturbingly.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to move with a sharp jerk or a series of sharp jerks: The car jolted to a halt.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a jolting shock, movement, or blow: The automobile gave a sudden jolt.
    • : an emotional or psychological shock: The news of his arrest gave me quite a jolt.
    • : something that causes such a shock: The news was a jolt to me.
    • : a sudden, unexpected rejection or defeat: Their policy got a rude jolt from the widespread opposition.
    • : Slang. a prison sentence.
    • : Slang. an injection of a narcotic.
    • : a bracing dose of something: a jolt of whiskey; a jolt of fresh air.

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Examples

  • Despite a year of tumult and a jolt to its ad revenues, Google is as important as ever.

  • Investors had seen the deal as a huge win for Nikola, by giving it a massive jolt of credibility.

  • CASP got the jolt it was looking for when DeepMind entered the competition in 2018 with its first version of AlphaFold.

  • The jolt is due in part, no doubt, to traders fleeing BitMEX, which has long specialized in such derivatives markets.

  • Democrats, meanwhile, point to evidence of a jolt of energy on their side.

  • The whole point of writing for free online, as Justin Hall had shown, was that it produced a jolt of joy.

  • But the real, unexpected jolt that kicked off the new season was the violent, sudden arrest of Cary.

  • The decrepit BMD came to a stop with a gear-clanking jolt by the water, and within seconds the soldiers broke out the vodka.

  • It was the jolt needed to get through the last stretch of the summer.

  • So, yeah, it was a very big hiccup—one sufficiently large to jolt the heart from its regular beat.

  • The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterwards the motion was easy enough.

  • This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway.

  • So the next day after the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls' joy got the first jolt.

  • Dissertations on literature, science, and philosophy came as an unexpected jolt.

  • A jolt, and you are descending, grip in hand, upon the platform.