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。
• What inner turmoil my following all these impulses led to!
  我的内心在这整个的推动下导致混乱！
• The instructive book inhibits people flora wrong desires and impulses.
  这本有教育意义的书抑制了人们不正当的欲望和行动。
• ( physiology) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS.
  （生理学）指神经元和神经冲动；从中枢神经系统将信息传送离开。
• The majority of the sensory or, afferent impulses from muscle do not reach the level of consciousness.
  来自肌肉的绝大部分感觉或传入神经冲动不会由人所意识到。
• 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。
• As a child I was slave to my impulses;
  作为一个孩子，我的奴隶，我的冲动；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。