sudden

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sud·den /ˈsʌdn/ S2 W3 adjectiveadj

1 SUDDENLYhappening, coming, or done quickly or when you do not expect it 突然的，忽然的，迅速而意外的

a sudden change in the weather

天气的突然变化

Life is cruel, she thought, with a sudden rush of anger.

生活真残酷，她想，心头突然涌上一股怒气。

a sudden movement

突然的一动

Her death was sudden.

她的死很突然。

2 all of a sudden SUDDENLYsuddenly 突然，突如其来地，猛然

All of a sudden the lights went out.

突然，灯都灭了。

Examples from the Corpus

all of a sudden• It got him trying to be too perfect with his pitches all of a sudden.• The way he decided to leave all of a sudden didn't make any sense.• You put the chair up, and all of a sudden, he has four points of interest.• And all of a sudden I got slammed in the face.• All of a sudden I realized that the car in front of me wasn't moving.• In spring training I started off good with my throwing, and then all of sudden it declined.• Then, all of a sudden, like a spigot turned counterclockwise, B shuts down.• But as revenues subsided, costs all of a sudden mattered, too.• The kitchen had gone quiet, all of a sudden, really quiet.• Now, all of a sudden, things are different.• We waited and waited, then all of a sudden we saw a sail on the horizon.

—suddenness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

sudden• Rebecca's decision to leave was very sudden.• The development is as sudden as it is dramatic.• A sudden boom followed in its wake, a new parachute flare splitting the night sky - a red target flare.• Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in your life.• There's been a sudden change of plans.• However, this kind of relatively sudden decline in levels of satisfaction is not necessarily permanent.• It was as she turned to swim back that she felt the sudden grip of a pain across her back.• All of a sudden I know two things: why they were on the same brain cell, and how psychiatry works.• It can even be converted into sudden laughter, when one realizes how absurd the pretence is.• Don't make any sudden moves around the animals.• Then came the sudden peso devaluation that December, and Jimenez pulled out $ 70 million more.• I felt a sudden sharp pain in my stomach.• Why the sudden shift in sentiment?

sudden change• Gradual changes are much less traumatic than sudden changes.• But a sudden change came over the spirit of his dreams.• She provides her own examples of sudden changes in behaviour, some of which are very close to Pope's characters.• Apple also said that selected Power Mac and Performa models are hampered by system freezes and sudden changes in colors.• Depression is sometimes brought on by a sudden change in one's life, such as coming into a Home.• A sudden change in water temperature can also be lethal.• Why this sudden change should have come about we do not know.

Origin sudden

(1200-1300) Old French sodain, from Latin subitaneus, from subitus “sudden”, from subire “to come up”

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