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whiplash

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++whip·lash /ˈwɪp-læʃ/ noun [uncountable]  MITTCa neck injury caused when your head moves forward and back again suddenly and violently, especially in a car accident 鞭抽式损伤,颈部扭伤〔尤指车祸造成的颈部过度屈伸损伤〕 One officer suffered whiplash injuries. 一名警官颈部过度屈伸受伤。
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whiplashNewish Cavalier, base model, with a whiplash radio aerial.Those taken to hospital were suffering from neck injuries caused by whiplash.Possible head injury, maybe whiplash - he's unconscious at the moment.If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.Since then, my head has snapped back fast enough to get a serious case of whiplash.I suffered whiplash and was shaken up.
whip·lash nounChineseSyllable
forward neck moves caused head a and back injury Corpus your when


whiplash
whiplash /ˈwɪp-læʃ/ noun [uncountable]
a neck injury caused when your head moves forward and back again suddenly and violently, especially in a car accident:
    One officer suffered whiplash injuries.


whip·lashBrE /ˈwɪplæʃ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɪplæʃ/ 🔊 noun [countable, usually singular] a hit with a whip 鞭打 [uncountable] = whiplash injury He was very bruised and suffering from whiplash. 他满身青肿,而且颈部过度屈伸受伤。🔊🔊