sensation
/senˈseɪʃən/noun
1
- a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body感觉; 知觉：
a burning sensation in the middle of the chest.
胸中部灼痛的感觉。
1.1
- mass noun the capacity to have such feelings or perceptions感觉能力; 知觉：
they had lost sensation in one or both forearms.
他们一支或两支前臂失去了知觉。
1.2
- an inexplicable awareness or impression觉察：
with clause she had the eerie sensation that she was being watched.她有一种怪异的感觉, 觉得有人在监视她。
2
- a widespread reaction of interest and excitement轰动：
his arrest for poisoning caused a sensation.
他因投毒被捕引起了极大的轰动。
2.1
- a person, object, or event that arouses such interest and excitement引起轰动的人（或事）：
she was a sensation, the talk of the evening.
她是一个尤物, 是整个晚上谈论的焦点。
词源
early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin sensatio（n-）, from Latin sensus （see SENSE）.