Quiver
['kwɪvə] or ['kwɪvɚ]
解释:
(noun.) case for holding arrows.
(verb.) shake with fast, tremulous movements; 'His nostrils palpitated'.
安娜贝拉录入--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Nimble; active.
(v. i.) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
(n.) The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
(n.) A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
校对:诺琳
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Quake, shake, quaver, bicker, be tremulous.[2]. Tremble, shudder, shiver.
塞西莉整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake,[See PLEASURE]
黛娜编辑
解释:
v.i. to shake with slight and tremulous motion: to tremble: to shiver.—ns. Quiv′er Quiv′ering a tremulous motion shiver.—adv. Quiv′eringly with quivering.—adj. Quiv′erish tremulous.
n. a case for arrows.—adj. Quiv′ered furnished with a quiver: sheathed as in a quiver.
adj. (Shak.) nimble active.
赫尔曼手打
娱乐性解释:
n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
校对:斯宾塞
例句:
- Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver, and handed it to his companion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- His quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I don't know what you DO mean, said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The mouth seemed formed less to speak than to quiver, less to quiver than to kiss. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The quiver was not emptied, nor the bow unstrung. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Don't say so, Vincy, said the mother, with a quivering lip, if you don't want him to be taken from me. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- His tutor placed him in a chair; his lips were quivering, his eyes brimming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Say that it does so,' returned Bradley with quivering lips; 'is there no cause for it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Not,' returned Bella, with quivering lips; 'not Harmon? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He was quivering with silent laughter. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The broad brown face of it heaved slowly, and then dimpled and quivered all over. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Mr. Jingle's face gradually relaxed; and something distantly resembling a wink quivered for an instant in his left eye. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Her eyes were round and wondering, bewildered, her mouth quivered slightly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But, sir, when I quivered my eyes again, and saw that it wasn't there, then it all flooded upon me with a fright, and I jumped up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Her arms quivered and were strong, immeasurably and irresistibly strong. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
录入:朱莉