dormant

• adj. 休眠的；静止的；睡眠状态的；隐匿的
• n. (Dormant)人名；(法)多尔芒

来自PIE*drem，睡觉，休息。引申词义蛰伏。

1. of e.g. volcanos; temporarily inactive;

"a dormant volcano"

2. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

3. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;

"dormant buds"

"a hibernating bear"

"torpid frogs"

4. not active but capable of becoming active;

"her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened"

dormant

dormant: [14] Like dormitory and dormer, dormant comes ultimately from Latin dormīre ‘sleep’, which is related to Sanskrit drā- ‘sleep’ and Russian dremat’ ‘doze’. Dormant was borrowed from French dormant, the present participle of dormir ‘sleep’, while dormitory [15] comes from Latin dormītōrium, a derivative of the past participle of dormīre. Dormer [16], from Old French dormeor, a derivative of dormir, originally signified a ‘dormitory window’. (It is not clear whether dormouse [15] is related, but if it is it would mean literally ‘sleeping mouse’, or conceivably even ‘sleeper’, from French dormeuse, the feminine of dormeur ‘sleeper’.)
=> dormer, dormitory

dormant (adj.)

late 14c., "fixed in place," from Old French dormant (12c.), present participle of dormir "to sleep," from Latin dormire "to sleep," from PIE root *drem- "to sleep" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic dremati "to sleep, doze," Greek edrathon "I slept," Sanskrit drati "sleeps"). Meaning "in a resting situation" (in heraldry) is from c. 1500. Meaning "sleeping' is from 1620s.

At issue is the TMT’s planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko , that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

At issue is the TMT's planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil.

冬天种子在土壤中休眠。

牛津词典

a dormant volcano

休眠火山

牛津词典

...when the long dormant volcano of Mount St Helens erupted in 1980...

当长期休眠的圣海伦斯火山在 1980 年爆发时

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated...

病毒潜伏于神经组织里直到被激活。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Bears lie dormant during the winter.

熊在冬季冬眠.

辞典例句

A long dormant memory stirred.

长期潜藏着的记忆复活了.

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Many animals are in a dormant state during winter.

在冬天许多动物都处于睡眠状态.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

The science of electrostatics lay dormant for about 2,000 years.

静电学沉睡了大约2,000年.

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She wake up dormant spring trees, just playing with spring irrigation of the flower bud.

她用春雷叫醒冬眠的树木, 用春雨灌溉刚打苞的小花.

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You plant the roses while are dormant.

你应当种植处于休眠状态的玫瑰.

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Lystrosaurus may be Wadong and dormant, to help them tide over the Earth The worst period.

也许水龙兽能够挖洞和冬眠, 从而帮助它们度过了地球上最恶劣的时期.

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The detection of imaging has great significance because of its dormant clinical symptoms.

临床表现较隐匿,影像学检查对其诊断有重要价值.

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Policy fatigue, long dormant period, short period of awakening, technical peak period.

政策疲劳期 、 多头休眠期 、 空头苏醒期 、 技术见顶期.

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The dormant account reverted to the state under escheat laws.

根据充公法律规定,休眠账户归国家所有.

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They reduced or abolished interest payments for low deposit or dormant accounts.

银行向[低结余户]或[不动户]停止支付利息或将息率调低.

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The subject of orthogonal trajectories remained dormant.

正交轨线的问题一直处于沉寂状态.

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The fourth chapter is some options and suggestions of legislation of dormant partnership in our country.

第四章为我国隐名合伙立法的选择与建议.

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Onion is a breathless and transitive vegetable, and it has obvious dormant period.

洋葱是一种无呼吸跃变的蔬菜, 具有明显的休眠期.

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Spot was born in the wild at the base of a dormant volcano.

点点出生在一座静火山山脚下的荒野里.

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Many dormant branches of our organization are now springing to active life.

我们组织中有许多沉寂的部门现在突然活跃起来.

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Land is silent, dormant, crop grows along with season, incompact not slow, go round and round.

土地是沉默 、 静止的, 作物随季节生长, 不紧不慢,周而复始.

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Alstom will be the location of the new season of dormant focus on the region.

这一位置将成为阿尔斯通新赛季的重点蛰伏区域.

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Insects possess a biological clock that programmes the insect's growth, reproduction and dormant periods.

昆虫具有一种生物钟,它会按照遗传密码控制昆虫的生长 、 繁殖和休眠期.

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He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.

这位教授应该试图唤醒他们沉睡和懒散的天赋.

辞典例句

These dormant supermassive black holes have indeed been detected through their gravitational influence.

我们已经透过重力影响,侦测到蛰伏的超大质量黑洞.

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The storage principle of onion has been controlled breath intensity and postponed dormant period.

洋葱的贮藏原理就是人为地抑制其呼吸强度,延长其休眠期.

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Remember, this is all mental, the body must stay dormant and relaxed throughout this.

请记住, 这些动作是精神的,在整个过程中, 身体必须保持静止和放松.

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Many living things are dormant in winter.

很多生物到了冬季都休眠.

《简明英汉词典》

During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil.

冬天种子在土壤中休眠。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The dormant period is another stage in the life cycle of the plant.

休眠期是这种植物生活史中的另一个阶段。

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