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If you feel shivery, your body is making small shakes you cannot quite stop. This happens when you are cold, when you are afraid, or when you are getting ill — the kind of shake that comes with a fever. A shivery feeling can also run through you when something is creepy, like a ghost story. It is an ordinary adjective, not a rude word. People say I feel shivery more than they say a shivery person. Though actually you can also call weather or a moment shivery when it makes you want to wrap your arms around yourself. It names the feeling or the little shakes, not a big action like jumping.
發抖的、發冷的
組成From shiver + -y. The -y turns shiver into an adjective: “full of shivering.”
同家族的字
- shiverthe verb and noun this adjective is made from
原始詞典資料2 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。
shiveryadj/ˈʃɪvəɹi/
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Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
- The cold night made me all shivery.
- Within are the ferret hutches, warm and dry; for the ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
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archaicEasily broken; brittle, flaky.
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。