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

• The Matrix is fiction that envisions humans living their physical lives out in a state of suspended animation, like perpetual fetuses, while in their minds their lives progress in their imagination.
  骇客帝国是一个虚构的故事，展现了人类以一种假死的状态生活在自己的物质世界中，就像永久的胎儿一般。而他们的头脑想像着生活在继续着。
• FOR the eight years since NATO aircraft bombed Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia into submission, the Serbian province of Kosovo has been in a state of suspended animation.
  自北约飞机轰炸斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇（SlobodanMilosevic）治下的塞尔维亚（Serbia）迫其屈服后，8年来，塞尔维亚的科索沃（Kosovo）省就一直处于滞生（suspendedanimation）状态。
• The Hague conference is in suspended animation.
  海牙会议处于停滞状态。
• The structures in the brain which would underwrite the ability to engage in P-functioning, they're not destroyed by suspended animation.
  存在于大脑中的，能够支持人格功能的结构，并没有被假死状态所破坏。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Doha round has been in suspended animation for too long.
  多哈回合陷入僵局太久了。
• Who was in suspended animation during the disaster.
  危机发生期间，他正处于生命暂停状态。