- 1震動、振動（快速而細微地抖動）。手機轉靜音那個模式，台灣就說「震動」，「開震動」。物理課本用「振動」。
To vibrate is to shake very fast in tiny movements, again and again, without moving from its place. A phone on a wooden table vibrates and buzzes; a guitar string vibrates after you pluck it; a washing machine vibrates so hard the floor shakes; the whole bus vibrates when the engine runs. Two things separate it from other shaking words. First, the movements are small and quick — too quick to count. Second, the thing stays where it is; it in place rather than travelling. The verb works both ways. Usually nothing does it to the object: "The windows vibrated." But you can also give it a : "The engine vibrates the whole frame", "Sound vibrate the tiny bones in your ear." Both are correct English. It is the everyday word for what a phone does when the ringer is off — a phone can be "on vibrate", where the word is being used as a noun for that setting, and people say "put it on vibrate" or "my phone vibrated". In science it is the plain technical word for how sound and light behave: things vibrate, and that shaking is what your ear hears as sound. There is a spoken use where people say a place or a person "vibrates with energy", meaning it feels alive and full of feeling — this is a picture, not real shaking.
組成From Latin vibrare, to shake or set trembling, going back much further to an ancient root meaning to swing or sway. The adjective form appeared in English first, in 1420; the verb we use came later, around 1620.
同家族的字
- vibrationthe noun for the shaking itself, same Latin vibrare
- vibrantsame root — literally trembling with life, now meaning bright and full of energy
- vibraphonevibra- from the same shaking idea; a motor makes its notes waver
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
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vibrateverb/vaɪˈbɹeɪt/
- 1
To shake with small, rapid movements to and fro.
- When "God save the King!" resounded meow meow through the stately abbey, the banners vibrating with the mighty music, I felt quite enthusiastic in my loyalty.
- The tender roared along vibrating vigorously; braking had resulted in "flats" on most of its tyres.
- 2
To resonate.
- Her mind was vibrating with excitement.
- 3
To brandish; to swing to and fro.
- to vibrate a sword or a staff
- 4
To mark or measure by moving to and fro.
- a pendulum vibrating seconds
- 5
To affect with vibratory motion; to set in vibration.
- Breath vocalized, i.e., vibrated or undulated, may […] impress a swift, tremulous motion.
- Star to star vibrates light: may soul to soul / Strike thro' a finer element of her own?
- 6
datedslangTo please or impress someone.
- And if he wants to give you high praise, he'll answer, "That vibrates me"; "That has a large charge"; or "That's oogley."
- […] standing side by side under a Grecian column, tapping their feet in unison and saying such things as "Hot-diggety,” “Razz-ma-tazz," “That vibrates me," and other expressions of praise current in their youth.
- 7
entertainmentlifestylemusicTo use vibrato.
- 8
slangTo pleasure someone using a vibrator.
- Downstairs in the living-room Jill Was vibrating herself for a thrill.
vibratenoun/vaɪˈbɹeɪt/
- 1
The setting, on a portable electronic device, that causes it to vibrate rather than sound any (or most) needed alarms.
- Please put your cellphones on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.
vibrateadj/vaɪˈbɹeɪt/
- 1
rareVibrating with (something).
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