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Shaky describes something that shakes or , or something unsteady and not firmly fixed. Your hands can be shaky from cold, fear, or old age; a table can be shaky if one leg is shorter than the others. Very commonly, "shaky" is also used for things that aren't physical at all — a "shaky voice" because someone is nervous or upset, and a "shaky argument" or "shaky evidence" means it's weak and easy to doubt, not solid or convincing.
顫抖的、不穩的(也可形容聲音、論點不牢靠)
組成"Shake" plus "-y," an ending that turns a verb into a describing word.
同家族的字
- shakethe verb this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料5 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。
shakyadj/ˈʃeɪki/
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Shaking or trembling.
- a shaky spot in a marsh
- a shaky hand
- 2
Nervous, anxious.
- He’s a nice guy but when he talks to me, he acts shaky.
- For the college clinician, restless nights after letting a shaky student walk out of the office are an occupational hazard. Are the student's safety assurances credible? Will he or she make it safely through the weekend?
- 3
Full of shakes or cracks; cracked.
- shaky timber
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shaky.
- 4
Easily shaken; tottering; unsound.
- a shaky constitution
- shaky business credit
- 5
Wavering; undecided.
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。