🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

血糖 crash

Native Script:血糖崩溃

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xuètáng crash

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sugar crash/ˈʃʊɡ.ər kræʃ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"吃完甜品后他感到了一阵血糖崩溃的疲倦。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A sudden drop in blood glucose levels after consuming a large amount of carbohydrates or sugar, leading to fatigue, irritability, and lack of focus.

    "After eating a giant slice of cake for lunch, she experienced a sharp sugar crash during the afternoon meeting."
  2. 2

    A colloquial term for the rapid exhaustion that follows an initial burst of energy provided by sugary foods or beverages.

    "The children had too much candy at the party and suffered a major sugar crash on the way home."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'sugar' (from Old French 'sucre', ultimately from Sanskrit 'śarkarā') and 'crash' (of Germanic origin, imitative of a loud noise, later extended to financial and bodily collapses). The term emerged in late 20th-century health and nutritional discourse to describe the physiological lethargy following reactive hypoglycemia.

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