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tremblor

/trem-bler/US // ˈtrɛm blər //UK // (ˈtrɛmblə) //

颤抖,颤栗,颤抖的人,震颤

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that trembles.
    • : an oscine bird, Cinclocerthia ruficauda, of the Lesser Antilles, related to the thrashers, noted for its habit of trembling violently.
    • : Also tremblor. Informal. a temblor.

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Examples

  • His district, just south of Washington DC was among the hardness hit by the trembler.

  • Still thou turnedst, and still Beckonedst the trembler, and still Gavest the weary thy hand.

  • The reptile fixed its terrible eye on the little trembler, which at length threw itself into the mouth of the serpent.

  • But even to the trembler a tremble may speak truer than words, and she had trembled and become conscious of it.

  • Each man wore upon his head a down head-net, a pair of trembler plumes, and a yellowhammer-feather forehead-band.

  • Upon the head was a feather tuft, a yellowhammer-feather forehead-band, two trembler plumes and some down.