1. 1受到驚嚇、心神動搖

    If you are shaken, something has upset you, shocked you, or you, and your feelings have not sat down again yet. It belongs to the verb shake: your body can shake, and your mind can feel shaken too. After a crash, bad news, or a near miss, people say I was shaken or she looked shaken. It is a little more careful than I was scared, and it often means the scare has already happened and you are still carrying it. You can be physically shaken — a bus throws you about — or emotionally shaken; this sense is the emotional one, though the two sit side by side. Careful English likes shaken here, not shook, even though you will hear I was shook. Though actually, the famous drink order shaken, not stirred is the physical mixing sense; if someone uses it after bad news, they are borrowing the joke.

From the word’s history

From Middle English (i)shaken, past participle of shaken 'to shake'; shake + -n.

shake 的過去分詞,源自中古英文 ishaken。

Wiktionary

組成From the verb shake + -n, a form of -en that makes a past participle, then used as an adjective. Older English had (i)shaken from the prefix i- + shaken + -en. The adjective comes from that verb form.

同家族的字

  • shakethe verb this past form belongs to
  • shookthe past tense of the same verb

原始詞典資料10 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。

shakenadj詞源 1/ˈʃeɪk(ə)n/

  • 1

    Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

    • [A] chief, / With shout and shaken spear / Stands at the prow, and guides them: […]
    • For the moment she felt like a shaken child—shaken out of its wailings into awe, and she said humbly—"I will try. I will think."
  • 2

    Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.

    • The waiter brought the Martinis, shaken and not stirred, as [James] Bond had stipulated, and some slivers of lemon peel in a wine glass. Bond twisted two of them and let them sink to the bottom of his drink.
  • 3

    Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.

    • The earthquake led to many shaken buildings and structures.
    • The trunks [of trees] are crushed and shattered / By the fierce blast's unconquerable stress. / […] / And through the ruins of the shaken mountain / The airs hiss and howl— […]
  • 4

    archaicobsoleteOf a cask: taken to pieces which are then tied up together for transportation.

    • A proportion for the ſetting foorth of a ſhip of 200. tunne, for the killing of the VVhale. […] 800. emptie ſhaken hogſheds, […]
  • 5

    businessminingOf something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.

  • 6

    Of timber: damaged from being cracked.

    • [Y]ou muſt chuſe a piece of VVood at leaſt tvvo Inches and a quarter over, leſt you vvant Stuff to vvork on: Nay, if your Stuff prove ſhaken or othervviſe unſound, or your Centers be not very exactly pitcht, you may vvant yet more Stuff; […]
  • 7

    Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.

    • We were left shaken by the revelations of abuse.
    • My mother is tolerably well, I trust; though her spirits are greatly shaken. She is up stairs and will have great satisfaction in seeing you all. She does not yet leave her dressing-room.
  • 8

    Weakened by some event.

    • Be mov'd vvith pitty at the afflicted ſtate of this our ſhaken Monarchy, that novv lies labouring under the throvves, and ſtruggling againſt the grudges of more dreaded Calamities.

shakennoun詞源 2/ˈʃɑːkɛn/

  • 1

    engineeringgovernmentmilitaryA flat shuriken (“dart or throwing blade”) resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.

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