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BNC: 23257 COCA: 8561

quake

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Related topics: Earth sciences
quake1 /kweɪk/ verb [intransitiveI]  
1  SHAKEto shake or tremble, usually because you are very frightened 〔通常因恐惧〕颤抖，哆嗦
quake with fear/fright/anger etc
 Richmond was quaking with fury.
里士满气得发抖。
2. quake in your boots informalFRIGHTENED to feel very afraid – used humorously 怕得发抖〔幽默用法〕
3  HESHAKEif the earth, a building etc quakes, it shakes violently 〔大地、建筑物等〕剧烈颤动，震动
 The explosion made the whole house quake.
爆炸使整个房子都晃动起来。
Examples from the Corpus
quake• She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake.• The ground quaked as they walked on it.• It left us quaking in our own home.• She pounded the quaking lid with her fists.• A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous, quaking waste.• It used to be that Florence quaked when the bikers came over the hill near the edge of town.
Related topics: Earth sciences
quake2 noun [countableC]  
HEan earthquake 地震
Examples from the Corpus
quake• A quake in the Tehachapi-Bakersfield area 50 miles north of Los Angeles registers 7.7.• Living in the rift caused by such a foundation quake is his ambition for your life.• A 6.3-magnitude quake in Long Beach, Calif., kills 115 people.• In California's San Fernando Valley, a 6.5-magnitude quake leaves 65 people dead.-March 27,1964.• Such local bodies are especially important because, by the time foreign aid arrives, most quake victims will have died.• The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.• The fact that there was not more damage or loss of life was likely due to the nature of the quake.• Seismologists said the quake appeared to have been rooted about 30 miles underground, deep enough to prevent catastrophic destruction.
Origin quake1
Old English cwacian
quake1 verbquake2 noun
Chinese
Corpus
BNC: 23257 COCA: 8561
BNC: 23257 COCA: 8561
BNC: 23257 COCA: 8561

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