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单词 systole-diastole
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systole-diastole
3. figurative. Chiefly in systole and diastole (also systole-diastole): rise and fall; ebb and flow.As the physical systole simultaneously involves contraction of the heart and increased bloodflow, so it may be used metaphorically as an image of both growth and decline.
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a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) ix. 692 We open our mouthes and draw it [sc. the Spirit] in; our Systole, to meet with His [sc. God's] Diastole.
1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan I. i. iii. 45 The Glowworms..sometimes hide their Light all at once, and a moment after make it appear again with the utmost regularity and exactness, as if they were in a perpetual Systole and Diastole.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 41/1 As in longdrawn Systole and longdrawn Diastole, must the period of Faith alternate with the period of Denial.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. vii. lxiii. 6 There must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry.
1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods i. v. 65 The long diastole in Utopian affairs that had begun with the great discoveries, passed into a phase of rapid systole.
1945 Good Housek. Apr. 124/2 Her heart, fluttering high and light in thin, uneven pulse, lurched once, sharply, with the extra systole of emotion.
1946 M. Lowry Let. 2 Jan. (1967) 74 The heart of the book..returns..to the uneasy, but healthy, systole-diastole of Hugh.
1999 G. Bear Darwin's Radio xv. 79 A chaotic predictor for dataflow systole and diastole on the Internet.
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