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suspended animation

悬浮动画,悬空动画,悬挂式动画,悬念

Related Words

cryonics冷冻学,低温病学,冷冻症,低温医学deep-freezing深度冷冻,深冻,深度冻结,深度冰冻freeze-drying冻干,冷冻干燥,冻干法,冻干燥motionlessness无动于衷,不动声色,不动产,不动的suspension悬挂,暂停,悬浮液,悬浮物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a state of temporary cessation of the vital functions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountemporary slowdown of functions
Synonyms
cryonics冷冻学,低温病学,冷冻症,低温医学deathlike state死亡状态,死状,死样的状态,死状的状态deep-freezing深度冷冻,深冻,深度冻结,深度冰冻freeze-drying冻干,冷冻干燥,冻干法,冻干燥motionlessness无动于衷,不动声色,不动产,不动的suspension悬挂,暂停,悬浮液,悬浮物

Examples

  • When conditions get tough, some tiny animals enter suspended animation and wait it out.

  • Scientists have long worried about the potential for massive amounts of carbon being released by northern permafrost, where ancient plant remains lie in a kind of suspended animation beneath the surface.

  • After freezing Hypsibius dujardini tardigrades to put them in a state of suspended animation, Traspas Muiña and planetary scientist Mark Burchell of the University of Kent in England loaded the dormant water bears into nylon bullets.

  • In a state akin to suspended animation, the squirrels breathe just once a minute, and their hearts beat five times per minute.

  • The treacherously cold water can actually send a person into a state of suspended animation.

  • They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

  • He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with all but two and a half years suspended.

  • Stop-motion animation artist PES has unveiled a new short this week.

  • Time was suspended as the world watched and waited for news about the young, brave girl from the Swat Valley.

  • This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.

  • Because the universe is governed by laws, and there is no credible instance on record of those laws being suspended.

  • It was like a dream of beauty suspended in the air before you—floating there—and you didn't want to disturb it.

  • The three banks thereupon opened their doors and satisfied the note-holders, ordinary business being, meanwhile, suspended.

  • The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.

  • He spoke with an animation and earnestness that gave an exaggerated importance to every syllable he uttered.

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