impulses

英 [ˈɪmpʌlsɪz]

美 [ˈɪmpəlsɪz]

n.  冲动; 心血来潮; 一时的念头; 脉冲; 冲击; 冲量; 推动力; 刺激
impulse的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 冲动;一时兴起的念头
  Animpulseis a sudden desire to do something.
  1. Unable to resist the impulse, he glanced at the sea again...
     他抑制不住冲动,又向海面瞥了一眼。
  2. He still couldn't understand the impulse that had made him confide in Cassandra...
     他仍然难以理解是什么样的冲动使他向卡桑德拉吐露了秘密。
  3. Wade resisted an impulse to smile.
     韦德强忍住想笑的冲动。
• 脉冲
  Animpulseis a short electrical signal that is sent along a wire or nerve or through the air, usually as one of a series.
• ADJ 一时兴起的;随兴的
  Animpulsebuy orimpulsepurchase is something that you decide to buy when you see it, although you had not planned to buy it.
  1. The curtains were an impulse buy.
     窗帘是一时兴起买下的。
• PHRASE 凭冲动;一时兴起
  If you do somethingon impulse, you suddenly decide to do it, without planning it.
  1. Sean's a fast thinker, and he acts on impulse...
     肖恩是个思维敏捷、行事随兴的人。
  2. After lunch she decided on impulse to take a bath.
     午饭后她突然兴起,决定洗个澡。

双语例句

• Self-Discipline – The ability to control and restrain impulses.
  自律&控制并抑制自己冲动的能力。
• Inhibition of natural impulses may cause psychological problems.
  压抑冲动可能会引起心理上的问题。
• The instructive book inhibits people flora wrong desires and impulses.
  这本有教育意义的书抑制了人们不正当的欲望和行动。
• In the course of time positive and negative acceleration impulses tend to cancel one another.
  在长时间中，正向和反向加速度冲击有互相抵消的趋势。
• As a child I was slave to my impulses;
  作为一个孩子，我的奴隶，我的冲动；
• ( physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS.
  （生理学）指神经元和神经冲动；从中枢神经系统将信息传送离开。
• Australian and American scientists are working on retina prostheses that produce biochemical impulses instead of electrical ones.
  澳大利亚和美国科学家正在研究视网膜假体，采用生化脉冲，而不是电脉冲。
• No personal impulses can be felt in it; not a stroke has any verve.
  既见不到他个人的情感，也看不出有哪一笔下得生动有力。
• Research has shown that it speeds the transmission of nerve impulses, increases endurance, and strengthens conditioned reflexes.
  研究表明，它加速神经刺激的传播，增强耐力，增强条件反射。
• Make an abrupt change of image or sound. In television, the scene is translated into electric impulses.
  作一个突然的场景或声音的转变。在电视里，场景被转变为电脉冲。