torpor 的定义
- sluggish inactivity or inertia.
- lethargic indifference; apathy.
- a state of suspended physical powers and activities.
- dormancy, as of a hibernating animal.
torpor 近义词
lethargy
更多torpor例句
- The strategy is to lull you into a happy torpor so you don’t log off.
- That revealed nitrogen going into amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, that formed in the animals’ muscles and also in the lungs, kidneys and other areas of the body during those brief periods between bouts of torpor.
- During the squirrels’ torpor, Rice and her team observed a chemical signal showing that skeletal muscle was slowly breaking down.
- The earliest fossil evidence of the metabolic slowdowns known as torpor may come from tusks of ancient creatures called Lystrosaurus.
- Instead, as temperatures drop with the sun, these hummingbirds enter a state of suspended animation known as torpor.
- These are times of torpor in Paris, politically as well as economically.
- But it was first and foremost an attempt to wake up America from the torpor of the daily grind under its meritocratic overlords.
- After the feast comes an extended afternoon of tryptophanic torpor in front of the television, football's true home.
- Narcotic poisons are neutralized by vinegar:—Narcotics … torpor … strong wine … sour wine … vinegar.
- I wanted to speak to him and tried to do so, but the torpor against which I was struggling prevented me for some minutes.
- The dauphiness fell, half swooned, on the step of her praying-desk and dwelt in deadly torpor.
- He sank into a kind of torpor, from which he was roused by the sound of applause and enthusiastic bravos.
- It is what will come upon you if you don't throw off this torpor.