单词 | apoplexy |
释义 | apoplexyWord family adjectiveapoplecticadverbapoplecticallynounapoplexyapoplex Illness & disabilityap·o·plex·y /ˈæpəpleksi/ noun [uncountableU] old-fashioned MIan illness in your brain which causes you to suddenly lose your ability to move or think 中风 SYN stroke Examples from the Corpus apoplexy• Amiss wondered if apoplexy would ensue, but all that followed was silence.• It is clearly a massive apoplexy.• Brian Dennehy, reprising his Broadway role, tackles Willy with bluster and a huge, bellowing presence bordering on apoplexy.• Such a practice is enough to give some modern scholars apoplexy.• It was enough to give you apoplexy. (1300-1400) Late Latin apoplexia, from Greek, from apoplessein “to damage with a stroke”, from apo- ( → APOCALYPSE) + plessein “to strike” |
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