convulsive

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Forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires, a convulsive agent of change.
滿是死樹的森林容易招致慘重的大火，這是一種具有驟發(fā)性動因的改變。
The fish gasped, then made one last convulsive leap, throwing itself in the direction of the river, and landed on the pavement with a thud.
那條魚大口地喘氣，然后做最后拼死一跳，將自己投向河的方向，結(jié)果砰地一聲落在人行道上。
Mr. Zubaidi, the inspector in Dhi Qar, compared the current crisis to the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad, a convulsive ransacking that shocked the world into action.
濟(jì)加爾省的文物調(diào)查員祖拜迪，把當(dāng)前危機(jī)比作首都巴格達(dá)國家博物館的劫掠。那次動蕩的洗劫震驚了世界，并促使各國采取行動。

After it is identified it cannot be quickly mitigated without causing convulsive changes to our society.
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Only at the end do these two tracks collide for a convulsive conclusion.
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Wherever governments seek to impose the social equivalent of cold-turkey abstinence—austerity—it generates such convulsive upheaval that the cure is worse than continued addiction.
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Convulsive movements are movements of the muscles in your body that you cannot control.