suspended animation

英 [səˌspendɪd ænɪˈmeɪʃn]

美 [səˌspendɪd ænɪˈmeɪʃn]

n.  人事不省; 假死; 蛰伏状态

医学

牛津词典

noun

• 人事不省；假死
  the state of being alive but not conscious or active
• 蛰伏状态
  a feeling that you cannot do anything because you are waiting for sth to happen

柯林斯词典

• 蛰伏状态;冬眠
  Suspended animationis a state in which an animal is unconscious, with its body functioning very slowly, for example so that the animal can survive the winter.
• N-UNCOUNT 呆滞;一动不动;无生机
  If you describe someone as being in a state ofsuspended animation, you mean that they have become inactive and are doing nothing.
  1. She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise...
     她就那样呆呆地躺着，等待着黎明到来后起床。
  2. The Hague conference is in suspended animation.
     海牙会议处于停滞状态。

英英释义

noun

• a temporary cessation of vital functions with loss of consciousness resembling death

双语例句

• A cut in interest rates would lift the economy out of its current state of suspended animation.
  利率下降可能会使经济脱离目前的停滞状态。
• The lungfish can live out of water in a state of suspended animation for three years.
  肺鱼离水后以暂不活动的状态可存活3年。
• Suppose we put somebody in a state of suspended animation, cool their body down so that the various metabolic processes come to an end.
  假设我们让某人，进入假死状态，将他们的身体降温，所有的代谢过程都停止。
• But thinking about suspended animation suggests that we may actually need a third category, suspended& neither alive nor dead.
  但是说到假死状态，我们就需要第三种可能了-，既不是死亡也不是生存。
• Exposure to a gas leak in an abandoned mine induced a former Army Air Corps officer to lapse into a form of suspended animation.
  由于呼吸到了废弃矿井中的泄漏气体，一名前陆军航空队军官陷入了一种假死状态。
• Problems concerning death are suspended animation, vegetable and euthanasia.
  与死亡相关的问题有假死、植物人和安乐死，“安乐死”不是“受嘱托杀人”，应尽早立法保护。
• Additionally, you can place a process in a kind of suspended animation, where it waits to be reanimated.
  此外，您还可以将某个进程放在一个挂起的动作序列中，等待被再次激活。
• It's not clear what's the right or best thing to say about suspended animation.
  正确的关于假死状态的说法，并不明确。
• Who was in suspended animation during the disaster.
  危机发生期间，他正处于生命暂停状态。
• Here at the Global Vault, hundreds of gray boxes containing seeds from places ranging from Syria to Mexico were moved this week into a freezing vault to be placed in suspended animation.
  本周，数以百计的装有种子的灰色盒子从叙利亚、墨西哥等地运至全球种子地库，藏于这个冷冻库之中。