令人眩晕的

这是2月15日的每日一词。

It's the word of the day for February 15.

今天的词是vertiginous，拼写为v-e-r-t-i-g-i-n-o-u-s。

Today's word is vertiginous, spelled v e r t I g I n o u s.

Vertiginous是一个形容词。

Vertiginous is an adjective.

它是一个正式的形容词，用于描述引起或可能引起眩晕感的事物，尤其是由于高度造成的。

It's a formal adjective used to describe something that causes or is likely to cause a feeling of dizziness, especially because of great height.

以下是这个词在《旅行与休闲》杂志中的一句例句。

Here's the word used in a sentence from Travel and Leisure.

这段攀登之路因令人心跳加速的急转弯和沿着狭窄岩脊的眩晕路段而臭名昭著。

The climb is infamous for its heart pumping switchbacks and vertiginous jaunt along a narrow sliver of crag.

像我这样恐高的人通常都会避开它。

Those who fear heights like me typically avoid it.

希区柯克经典惊悚片《迷魂记》中高潮场景恰当地展现了从一座眩晕的钟楼攀爬并坠落的惊险一幕。

The climactic scene of Hitchcock's classic thriller vertigo features appropriately a dramatic climb and fall from a vertiginous bell tower.

‘Vertiginous’ 描述那些引起眩晕的事物，眩晕是一种个体或其周围环境似乎在旋转的感官体验，这个词源自拉丁语形容词‘vertiginosus’，而后者又来自拉丁语名词‘vertigo’，意为旋转或盘旋的动作。

Vertiginous, which describes things that cause vertigo, a sensation of motion in which an individual or their surroundings seem to whirl dizzily, comes from the Latin adjective vertiginosus, which in turn comes from the Latin noun vertigo, meaning a turning or whirling action.

这两个词都源自拉丁语动词‘vertere’，意思是转动。

Both words descend from the Latin verb vertere, meaning to turn.

‘Vertiginous’ 和 ‘vertigo’ 只是众多由‘vertere’衍生出的词汇中的两个，从‘adverse’到‘vortex’，这些词多得令人眼花缭乱。

Vertiginous and vertigo are just two of an almost dizzying array of vertere offspring from the word adverse to the word vortex.

‘Vertiginous’ 所表达的眩晕感常被用作比喻，例如‘电影传奇中的令人眩晕的高度’。

The dizzying sense of vertiginous is often used figuratively as in the vertiginous heights of cinematic legend.

以上就是今天的单词，我是彼得·索科洛夫斯基。

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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