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单词

quake

读音
kweɪk
美式
英式
词根

"Quake" 这个词来源于古英语 "cwacian",意为震动,颤抖。它没有公认的从词根衍生出来的其他单词。

释义

v. (因恐惧或紧张)发抖,颤抖,哆嗦;(大地、建筑物等)震动,摇晃;怕得发抖(幽默用法) n. 地震(等于 earthquake);颤抖,哆嗦;震动,摇晃 [ 复数 quakes 第三人称单数 quakes 现在分词 quaking 过去式 quaked 过去分词 quaked ]

例句

The quake destroyed mud buildings in many remote villages.
地震摧毁了许多偏远村庄的泥土房屋。
Her home collapsed in the quake.
她家在地震中倒塌了。
This voice made the boys gasp and quake.
这个声音吓得孩子们喘不过气来,直发抖。

强化记忆

你可以通过词汇巧记的方式来帮助记忆,“quake”的字面意思是地震,颤抖,这个画面非常强烈。把它和现实生活中的地震场景对应起来,就容易记住了。"Quake" 这个单词的历史可以追溯到1000年前的古英语期。这个词在英语中始终保留着对地震或颤抖的基础描述。

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They were Twittering it.And so as the quake was happeningthe news was reported.
The BBC got their first wind of the Chinese quake from Twitter.Twitter announced the existence of the quakeseveral minutes before the US Geological Survey
and I started working with my home communityto help them through that terrible post-quake period.I worked with all sorts of organizations
To predict more imminent events,researchers have investigated the vibrations Earth elicits before a quake.Geologists have long used seismometers
had anything up online for anybody to read.The last time China had a quake of that magnitudeit took them three months to admit that it had happened.
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