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sunstroke

/suhn-strohk/US // ˈsʌnˌstroʊk //UK // (ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk) //

中暑,晒伤,日晒,受暑

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.

Examples

  • I got drunk, sunstroke, and dysentery,” laughs Robert, “but I also got the girl.

  • The hospitals were already full of soldiers suffering as much from sunstroke as from wounds received in battle.

  • At first I thought the unfortunate man was suffering from sunstroke, and that in course of time he would regain his reason.

  • Conversations were concerning sunstroke; while butter-making, and still more butter-keeping, was a despair.

  • The social investigators told us that alcohol taken into the system at such a time would cause sunstroke.

  • The sight of these gentlemen had the effect of a sunstroke upon him; he went raving mad on the spot.