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vertigo

/vur-ti-goh/US // ˈvɜr tɪˌgoʊ //UK // (ˈvɜːtɪˌɡəʊ) //

眩晕症,眩晕,晕眩症,眩晕感

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n.名词 noun
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    plural ver·ti·goes, ver·tig·i·nes [ver-tij-uh-neez]. /vərˈtɪdʒ əˌniz/. Pathology.

    • : a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings or of being in tilting or spinning surroundings.

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Examples

  • The magic gone, I’d watch the mouth of whoever I was talking to open and close robotically, feeling a kind of mental vertigo.

  • A friend suffered a severe concussion after hitting a tree while skiing, and the resulting injury caused such intense vertigo that, for a long time, he could only walk down a hallway with his head sliding against the wall.

  • You once said that the bout with vertigo and nausea you had in the summer of 1968 was not an inappropriate response to that period.

  • I was just wiped out, had a little bit of vertigo and had a headache, and I never have headaches.

  • The vertigo your coastal sophisticate might get from perusing 1791.

  • When, in succession, he made Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), and The Birds (1963).

  • To bolster my case I told him we should actually call it Pursuito, like Vertigo or Psycho.

  • Movie buffs have commented endlessly on the bell-tower sequence in Vertigo.

  • Hitchcock said that when Vertigo was finished, he took it to New York to screen it for the Paramount executives.

  • The sight made the head of the officer to swim, as if suddenly struck with vertigo.

  • These symptoms are vertigo, dimness of sight and hearing, pains in the head and nausea.

  • Care should be taken not to employ too strong currents, as otherwise vertigo and other unpleasant symptoms may be produced.

  • For a moment Ren had the slight vertigo of a man to whose intense passion is forbidden the relief of physical action.

  • More agreeable—not being subject to a sense of vertigo, which frequently (with me) followed the use of animal food.