- 1冬眠
When an animal hibernates, it goes into a very deep rest for the winter: it finds a safe place, its body slows right down, and it lives off fat stored earlier in the year. It is not ordinary sleep. A sleeping cat will wake if you touch it; a hibernating hedgehog is much further under, and it may stay like that for months. Bears, bats, and some other animals do this. People stretch the word in two common ways. We joke that a person is hibernating when they stay indoors all winter. And a computer can hibernate: it saves everything, shuts down, and wakes later in the same state — a human metaphor laid on a machine. The animal sense is the home meaning; the others grew from it.
組成From Latin hībernātus, the participle of hībernō, “to spend the winter,” from hībernus, “wintry.” English added the verb-forming piece -ate.
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- hibernationthe noun for that long winter rest
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hibernateverb/ˈhaɪbə(r)ˌneɪt/
- 1
biologynatural-sciencesTo spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
- Hedgehogs and bears are two of the many mammals that hibernate in winter.
- Organisms have developed all sorts of ways of dealing with these variations. They hibernate or estivate or migrate.
- 2
To live in seclusion.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsTo enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- Your computer hibernates after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.
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