convulsive

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Forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires, a convulsive agent of change.
满是死树的森林容易招致惨重的大火，这是一种具有骤发性动因的改变。
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.
那条鱼大口地喘气，然后做最后拼死一跳，将自己投向河的方向，结果砰地一声落在人行道上。
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.
济加尔省的文物调查员祖拜迪，把当前危机比作首都巴格达国家博物馆的劫掠。那次动荡的洗劫震惊了世界，并促使各国采取行动。

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.