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

• 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。
• I was in a state of suspended animation and it was enough that I had something to eat and a bed to lie on.
  我处于一种麻木状态中，只要有东西可以吃，有床可以睡，就行了。
• Delayed implantation occurs when the conceptus enters a state of suspended animation at the blastocyst stage of development.
  延迟着床是指胚胎在发育到胚泡阶段时暂时进入休眠状态，并不立即着床。
• Suspended animation in organisms during periods of extreme drought from which they revive when moisture returns.
  在非常干旱的时候机体的器官暂停活动，恢复潮湿后又恢复过来。
• ( biology) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation.
  （生物学）处在生物学的休息或者假死的状态。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.
  有些动物，例如刺猬，冬季时会处于活动暂停状态。
• 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。