earthquake

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɜːθkweɪk/    美 /ˈɝθkweɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
    — Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
  2. Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
    — Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.
  3. A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event. figuratively
    — As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
动词 v.
  1. To undergo an earthquake. intransitive
    — Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.

词形变化

earthquakes plural earthquakes present,singular,third-person earthquaking participle,present earthquaked participle,past earthquaked past

词汇关系

近义词
earthdin quake seism temblor terremote tremblor tremor
衍生词
antiearthquake birthquake cuntquake earthquake baroque earthquake bomb earthquake dam earthquake drill earthquake engineering earthquakelike earthquake-prone earthquakeproof earthquake protector earthquake storm earthquaky footquake hurriquake megaearthquake microearthquake mirthquake non-earthquake paleoearthquake postearthquake slow earthquake
相关词
moonquake seaquake starquake

词源

词源 1
From Middle English erthequake, corresponding to earth + quake. Displaced Middle English eorð byfung (“earthquake”) from Old English eorþbeofung (literally “earth shaking”).
词源 2
From Middle English erthequake, corresponding to earth + quake. Displaced Middle English eorð byfung (“earthquake”) from Old English eorþbeofung (literally “earth shaking”).
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