impulse
- n.推动作用，冲力作用;冲动;冲击;冲量;推动，驱使;刺激;〈生理〉神经冲动;冲力，推力;推动力;心血来潮，一时的念头;建议;脉冲;怂恿
- v.推动，促进
- adj.一时兴起的，随兴的
复数： impulses
im- 在内,进入,使 + puls 推动,驱使 + -e
impulsenoun
冲动；心血来潮；一时的念头
a sudden strong wish or need to do sth, without stopping to think about the results
He had a sudden impulse to stand up and sing.
他突然心血来潮，想站起来歌唱。
I resisted the impulse to laugh.
我强忍着没有笑出来。
Her first impulse was to run away.
她的第一个念头就是逃走。
The door was open and on (an) impulse she went inside.
门开着，她一时心血来潮就走了进去。
He tends to act on impulse .
他往往凭一时冲动行事。
脉冲；冲击；冲量
a force or movement of energy that causes sth else to react
nerve/electrical impulses
神经冲动；电路脉冲
推动力；刺激
something that causes sb/sth to do sth or to develop and make progress
to give an impulse to the struggling car industry
给予挣扎中的汽车工业一点刺激
impulse
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N-VAR 冲动;一时兴起的念头
An impulse is a sudden desire to do something.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。
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N-COUNT 脉冲
An impulse is a short electrical signal that is sent along a wire or nerve or through the air, usually as one of a series. -
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ADJ 一时兴起的;随兴的
An impulse buy or impulse purchase is something that you decide to buy when you see it, although you had not planned to buy it.The curtains were an impulse buy.
窗帘是一时兴起买下的。
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PHRASE 凭冲动;一时兴起
If you do something on impulse, you suddenly decide to do it, without planning it.Sean's a fast thinker, and he acts on impulse...
肖恩是个思维敏捷、行事随兴的人。
noun
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- the act of applying force suddenly
- the impulse knocked him over
- Synonym: impulsion impetus
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- an impelling force or strength
- the car's momentum carried it off the road
- Synonym: momentum
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- the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
- they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus
- Synonym: nerve impulse nervous impulse neural impulse
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- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
- the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star
- Synonym: pulsation pulsing pulse
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- a sudden desire
- he bought it on an impulse
- Synonym: caprice whim
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- an instinctive motive
- profound religious impulses
- Synonym: urge
数据来源：WordNet
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He tends to act on impulse .
他往往凭一时冲动行事。
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He finally gave way to an impulse and pulled her toward him .
他最终还是没能抑制住冲动，把她拉向了自己。
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The door was open and on impulse she went inside .
门开着，她一时心血来潮就走了进去。
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Her first impulse was to run away .
她的第一个念头就是逃走。
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He had a sudden impulse to stand up and sing .
他突然心血来潮，想站起来歌唱。
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The photochemical reactions transform the light into electrical impulses .
光化学反应使光变为电脉冲。
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It was an impulse buy .
这是一时心血来潮买的。
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Many people act on impulse without counting the cost .
很多人不考虑后果就莽撞行事。
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Information is transferred along each neuron by means of an electrical impulse .
信息在电脉冲作用下经神经元传递。
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After lunch she decided on impulse to take a bath .
午饭后她突然兴起，决定洗个澡。
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All day she had fought off the impulse to telephone Harry .
她一整天都在克制自己想给哈里打电话的冲动。
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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。
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Sean 's a fast thinker , and he acts on impulse
肖恩是个思维敏捷、行事随兴的人。
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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。
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He was egocentric , a man of impulse who expected those around him to serve him .
他是个以自我为中心、易冲动的人，希望身边的人都为他服务。
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The curtains were an impulse buy .
窗帘是一时兴起买下的。
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Wade resisted an impulse to smile .
韦德强忍住想笑的冲动。
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The erotic impulse is sublimated into art .
将性冲动升华为艺术。
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I yielded to an impulse
我没有忍住冲动。
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I don 't know how to resist my impulse .
我不知道怎样抑制自己的感情冲动。
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The impulse of falling water turns the waterwheel .
落水的冲力使水轮转动。
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The plan will give an impulse to industrial expansion .
这个计划将促进工业的扩展。
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He called the girl that he met only on impulse .
他一时冲动给那个与他仅有一面之缘的女孩打了电话。
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She had a sudden impulse to go on holidays .
她突然心血来潮想去度假。
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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。
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At such junctures he always had an impulse to leave .
在这样的紧要关头，他总有要离开的冲动
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She wrote that letter on impulse .
她一时冲动写了这封信。
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At such junctures he always had an impulse to leave ; it was needed on special occasions .
在那时他总有要离开的冲动，在紧急时刻她站了出来
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She extricated herself from her mingled impulse to deny and guestion .
她约束了自己想否认并追问的不可明状的冲动
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The impulses to wordless prayer ,
推动着我们做无言的祷告的，
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