disorienting

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 disorientate


1. VERB 使迷失方向;使觉得迷惘
   If something disorients you, you lose your sense of direction, or you generally feel lost and uncertain, for example because you are in an unfamiliar environment.
   1. An overnight stay at a friend's house disorients me...
      在朋友家过夜让我觉得晕晕乎乎的。
   2. They were disorientated by the smoke and were firing blindly into it.
      他们在烟雾中迷失了方向，向里面胡乱射击了一通。

1. Instead, she was seeking to guide entrepreneurs through the disorienting haze of VC self-promotion.
   相反，她正努力引导创业者走过风投自我提升的进阶迷途。
2. By turning your checkout path into a single-screen interface, you cut down on the latency between server round-trips and provide a less disorienting transition between steps.
   通过将结帐过程转变成一个单一屏幕的界面，可以减少服务器往返带来的延迟，还可以让步骤间的转变不再如此让人迷惑。
3. Inevitably, the here and now ages into there and then, and the distance between those two points can be more disorienting than any wild flight into the universe.
   他口中的此时此地已经不可避免地流逝而去，成了彼时彼地，两个时空之间的距离或许比宇宙中的激战更加令人困惑。
4. Making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting; a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting.
   右转了这么多次以后就迷失了方向；对脑部的重击会导致昏迷。
5. But what made the news of his death so acutely disorienting was the fact that, on some level, so many of us thought that, eventually-albeit a few years behind schedule-he might actually do it.
   但是，他的死讯之所以让人们如此不知所措，是因为这样一个事实：从某种角度看，我们那么多人都认为，即使比他的“时间表”晚几年，他最终也许真的能迈开双腿走路。
6. The recognition of this lie is a harbinger of personal freedom, but in its beginning stages it can be quite disorienting.
   认识出这个谎言是个人自由的一个预示，但是，在其初期阶段会非常的令人混乱迷失。
7. The quake, tsunami and radiation have destroyed or defiled what may be the islands'most precious commodity, land, dealing a psychological blow that for many will be existentially disorienting.
   地震、海啸和放射性物质已经摧毁或者污染和这个岛国最珍贵的物品和土地，造成了心理的大崩溃，从而导致许多人将产生存在性的迷失。
8. But in fact, if you just run your fingers again and again over this floppy disk you are disorienting those particles or knocking them off perhaps altogether, depending on the medium.
   事实上，如果你把手指一次次的在磁盘上面滑动，这些粒子就会变的无极性，或者把它们整个搞坏，而这取决于媒介。
9. If you have a health crisis and your physical life is affected in radical ways the perceptual markers disappear, and this can be disorienting.
   如果你遇到健康上的危机，并且你的物质生命以一种彻底的方式受到了影响，那么“感知的标记”就消失了，并且这会让人混乱迷失。
10. At times, the breathless rush of development can be disorienting, not to say destructive.
    有时，飞速发展虽说不上是破坏性的，但却会令人失去方向。
11. Baudelairean strangeness approximates the effect of my own encounter with any number of disorienting features of Zeng's art.
    波德莱尔式的陌生化十分接近笔者与曾梵志艺术中任何数量的惑人的特色相遇时的情形。
12. Peter, the firstfew minutes* Will be very disorienting.
    彼得，最初几分钟你会很迷失。
13. Yet simultaneously they are fragmented, episodic, disorienting.
    然而，同时他们分散、松散且令人迷惑。
14. Even his accent is disorienting.
    就连他的口音也让人摸不着头脑。
15. The research issue is on the basis that the contradiction between the needs of teacher professional development and the disorienting improving function of evaluation are becoming increasingly acute, but the ideal solutions have not been found yet.
    本论题的提出主要基于一个基本的背景，即教师专业发展的需要与评价改进功能迷失之矛盾日益尖锐，且仍未找到适宜的解决办法。

adj

1. causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
   1. making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting
   2. a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting