sunstroke

/suhn-strohk/US // ˈsʌnˌstroʊk //UK // (ˈsʌnˌstrəʊk) //

中暑,晒伤,日晒,受暑

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pathology.
- : a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.

I got drunk, sunstroke, and dysentery,” laughs Robert, “but I also got the girl.
The hospitals were already full of soldiers suffering as much from sunstroke as from wounds received in battle.
At first I thought the unfortunate man was suffering from sunstroke, and that in course of time he would regain his reason.
Conversations were concerning sunstroke; while butter-making, and still more butter-keeping, was a despair.
The social investigators told us that alcohol taken into the system at such a time would cause sunstroke.
The sight of these gentlemen had the effect of a sunstroke upon him; he went raving mad on the spot.