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 Doha round has been in suspended animation for too long.
  多哈回合陷入僵局太久了。
• ( 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。
• 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。
• Evidently, his bizarre state of suspended animation is only temporary& when Iron Man regains his freedom to move, he "kills the people he once saved" in a dreadful manner.
  显然，他的无法行动的状态是暂时性的，当他获得自由的时候，他杀死了那些他曾经拯救过的人类。
• Who was in suspended animation during the disaster.
  危机发生期间，他正处于生命暂停状态。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Hague conference is in suspended animation.
  海牙会议处于停滞状态。
• 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。