喜樂美語
  1. 1(動詞)發抖、顫抖（因害怕或地震）；(名詞，口語)地震(=earthquake 的簡稱)

    To quake means to shake, usually because you're very afraid, or because the ground itself is physically shaking. "Quake with fear" describes your body from . "Quake" is also simply a short, informal way of saying "earthquake" — news reports often use "quake" instead of the full word to save space in headlines.

From the word’s history

From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian 'to quake, tremble', from Proto-Germanic *kwakōną, likely imitative.

源自古英文 cwacian「發抖」，可能是模仿聲音而來的字。

Wiktionary

組成A shortened form of "earthquake."

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Quakename

  • 1

    The 99th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

quakenoun/kweɪk/

  • 1

    A trembling or shaking.

    • We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
  • 2

    An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.

    • California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
    • Well, everybody talks about the California quakes But the first time I ever felt the earth shake Was in Miami, when Amy touched me.
  • 3

    Something devastating, like a strong earthquake.

    • But HS1 was more exposed to the COVID quake than most given its inherent reliance on international travel, which had collapsed, leaving cross-Channel operator Eurostar stacked with millions of debt.

quakeverb/kweɪk/

  • 1

    To tremble or shake.

    • I felt the ground quaking beneath my feet.
    • Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
  • 2

    To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.

    • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
    • If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。