Pulse

(noun.) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; 'he could feel the beat of her heart'.

(noun.) edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.).

(noun.) the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.

(verb.) produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; 'pulse waves'; 'a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube'.

(verb.) drive by or as if by pulsation; 'A soft breeze pulsed the air'.

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• New life stirred in every pulse. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Louisa, holding her hand, could feel no pulse; but kissing it, could see a slight thin thread of life in fluttering motion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Such a visage, joined to the brawny form of the holy man, spoke rather of sirloins and haunches, than of pease and pulse. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But every pulse beat in him as he remembered how she had come down and placed herself in foremost danger,--could it be to save him? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I read a poem or two; whether the spell was in me or in the verse I know not, but my heart filled genially, my pulse rose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Absolute exhaustion--possibly mere hunger and fatigue, said I, with my finger on the thready pulse, where the stream of life trickled thin and small. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Then 800 pulses of air will reach the ear each second, and the ear drum, being flexible, will respond and will vibrate at the same rate. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Puzzledout of breath, all my pulses throbbing in inevitable agitation, I knew not where to turn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In the deepest fountain of my heart the pulses were stirred; around, above, beneath, the clinging Memory as a cloak enwrapt me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• My heart throbbed fast; the pulses at my temples beat furiously. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Both the girls felt their faces glow and their pulses throb; both knew they would do no good by rushing down into the _mêlée_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The pulses created in the air by a sounding body are received by the ear and the impulses which they impart to the auditory nerve pass to the brain and we become conscious of a sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Eustacia, though set inwardly pulsing by his words, was equal to her part in such a drama as this. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It came again, the swishing like the noise of a rocket and there was another up-pulsing of dirt and smoke farther up the hillside. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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