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

• It's one of the ways we monitor ourselves, control impulses and guide actions.
  它只是我们对自己进行调节、控制冲动和引导自己行为的一种方式。
• 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。
• Although truth and justice may be the most powerful impulses to show moral courage, there are others.
  虽然真理和正义是表现道德上勇气的最强有力的推动力，但还有其他的。
• Existence and Stability of Periodic Solutions of Neural Networks with Impulses and Delays
  具有脉冲和时滞的神经网络的周期解与稳定性的研究
• 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。
• People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it.
  人们给自己定下一个最高的目标，对一切不利于实现这一目标的冲动都加以克制。
• As a child I was slave to my impulses;
  作为一个孩子，我的奴隶，我的冲动；
• I evaluate all this and start sending out impulses to step up production of gastric juices and saliva.
  我核计了这一切，开始传出搏动以加快生产胃液和唾液。
• Some are modified to transmit electric impulses.
  有些作了调整以传输电脉冲。
• The efferent fibers carry impulses from the central nervous system to the effector organs commanded by these centers.
  传出纤维把中枢神经系统的冲动传到中枢所管辖的效应器。这种有中枢神经系统参与的情况，称为中枢敏感化。