a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body 感觉;知觉 a burning sensation in the middle of the chest. 胸部灼痛的感觉。 ■[mass noun]the capacity to have such feelings or perceptions 感觉能力;知觉 they had lost sensation in one or both forearms. 他们一支或两支前臂失去了知觉。 ■an inexplicable awareness or impression 觉察 [with clause]she had the eerie sensation that she was being watched. 她有一种怪异的感觉,觉得有人在监视她。
a widespread reaction of interest and excitement 轰动 his arrest for poisoning caused a sensation. 他因投毒被捕引起了极大的轰动。 ■a person, object, or event that arouses such interest and excitement 引起轰动的人(或事) she was a sensation, the talk of the evening. 她是一个尤物,是整个晚上谈论的焦点。
语源
early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin sensatio(n-), from Latin sensus (see sense)