猛地一动 meaning in English

move pull or shift with jerks

For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation .
在吉凶未卜的几秒钟时间里，牧师心头猛地一动，出现了一种神秘古怪的感觉。
The chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence .
牧师心头猛地一动，出现了一种神秘古怪的感觉，好象从前某个时候曾经经历过同样的情景似的。