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    /ˈɜːrθkweɪk/ · /ˈɜːθkweɪk/

    a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface that can break buildings, roads, and other things.

    地震

    複數 earthquakes

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核心畫面

The word is built from exactly what it names: earth + quake, the ground shaking. You can hold the picture of the one surface everyone treats as fixed — the floor you stand on — suddenly moving under you, so that lamps swing, water tips out of a glass, and walls can crack. Everything the word does grows out of that: the ground itself, the thing nothing is supposed to move, moves.

這個字就是它字面上的兩塊拼起來：earth（大地）+ quake（搖晃）。可以想成一個大家默認絕對不會動的平面——你…更多收起這個字就是它字面上的兩塊拼起來：earth（大地）+ quake（搖晃）。可以想成一個大家默認絕對不會動的平面——你正踩著的地板——忽然在腳下移動：燈在晃，杯子裡的水潑出來，牆可能出現裂痕。這個字的用法都是從這個畫面長出來的：連地面本身都動了。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

earthquakenoun/ˈɜːθkweɪk/

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    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.
    • I had just awoke at gun-fire (5 A.M.), when suddenly the thatch began to rustle and shake as if an army of cats were galloping over it, and immediately afterwards my bed shook too, so that for an instant I imagined myself back in New Guinea, in my fragile house, which shook when an old cock went to roost on the ridge; but remembering that I was now on a solid earthen floor, I said to myself, "Why, it's an earthquake," and lay still in the pleasing expectation of another shock; but none came, and this was the only earthquake I ever felt in Ternate.
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    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.
    • The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.
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    A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.

    • 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.
    • Leo Varadkar has announced he is standing down as Ireland’s prime minister and also giving up his role as leader of the Fine Gael party in the ruling coalition, in a surprise move described by pundits as a “political earthquake” for the country.

earthquakeverb/ˈɜːθkweɪk/

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    To undergo an earthquake.

    • Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。