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

• His senses and reasons inhibited his wrong desires or impulses.
  他的理智抑制了不正当的欲望或冲动。
• 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。
• Self-Discipline – The ability to control and restrain impulses.
  自律&控制并抑制自己冲动的能力。
• Nerve impulses, hormone and organ-specific irritant can cause cell membrane depolarization.
  神经冲动、激素及器官特异刺激物可以引起细胞膜去极化。
• 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。
• Nerve cells carry and receive nervous impulses.
  神经细胞传递并接收神经冲动。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some are modified to transmit electric impulses.
  有些作了调整以传输电脉冲。
• The problem is to keep these impulses, without making war the outlet for them.
  问题是要控制这些冲动，不要使他们把战争做为他们的出路。