The child's nervous illness often threw her into convulsion.是什么意思？

The child's nervous illness often threw her into convulsion.

这孩子的神经性疾病常使她产生痉挛.

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

nervous

adj. 焦虑的，紧张不安的，神经质的；

例句
He's taking a dangerous drug: it acts very fast on the central nervous system...
他正在服用一种危险的药物：这种药物能很快影响到中枢神经系统。

illness

n. 疾病，某种具体疾病，不健康；

例句
Although his mental illness had coincided with his war service it had not been caused by it...
虽然他的精神病刚好在他参战期间发作，但并不是由此引起的。

often

adv. 常常，经常，时常，再三；

例句
Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA than in maternal DNA.
相对于母本DNA,基因畸变往往更多地与父本DNA上的缺陷相关。

threw

v. 投( throw的过去式 )，掷，扔，抛；

例句
Helen threw her arms about him...
海伦张开双臂拥抱他。

her

pron. (she的宾格)她，(she的所有格)她的，她，指某个国家，（一艘）船；

例句
There was a terrible sadness in her eyes...
她眼神中流露出深深的悲伤。

into

prep. （表示方向）进入…中，（表示所属）输入，（表示状态）进入…状态，（表示时间）持续到；

例句
By 1838, the abolitionists had shamed parliament into ending slavery in British colonies...
到1838年，废奴主义者迫使议会出于道德压力而废除了英国殖民地的奴隶制。

convulsion

n. [医]抽搐，大笑，震动，动乱；

例句
...the great convulsion of the eighteenth century.
18世纪的巨大动乱