Jolt
[dʒəʊlt;dʒɒlt] or [dʒolt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sudden jarring impact; 'the door closed with a jolt'; 'all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers'.
(verb.) disturb (someone's) composure; 'The audience was jolted by the play'.
(verb.) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion.
整理:莫顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
沙琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Be shaken (as a carriage by passing over rough ground).
v. a. Shake (as a carriage does when passing over rough ground).
n. Shaking, jolting.
編輯:罗达
解釋/意思:
v.i. to shake with sudden jerks.—v.t. to shake with a sudden shock.—n. a sudden jerk.—ns. Jolt′er; Jolt′-head Jolt′erhead a blockhead.—adv. Jolt′ingly in a jolting manner.
錄入:卢
例句/造句/用法:
- The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This affords the maximum of riding comfort by the elimination of all jar and jolt occasioned by an uneven roadway. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- With a jolt it stopped before the cottage, and a black-haired giant leaped out to run up onto the porch. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In the jolt of my head I heard somebody crying. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- They have rumbled through the streets, and jolted over the stones, and at length reach the wide and open country. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The moment he saw Gudrun something jolted in his soul. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- A blinding flash went over his brain, his body jolted. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The hackney-coach jolted along Fleet Street, as hackney-coaches usually do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- And the wagon drove off, rattling and jolting over the frozen road. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I never did feel such a jolting in my life,' said Mr. Pickwick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Our bones were nearly knocked out of joint, we were wild with excitement, and our sides ached with the jolting we had suffered. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To increase this smoothness of travel he added a system of spring carriage to his engine, and saved it from the jolting that had handicapped his first model. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- She went on, with the discord jarring and jolting through her, in the most barren of misery. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The last time you were out in a cab, you came home with a headache from the jolting. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I was the only inside passenger, jolting away knee-deep in straw, when I came to myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The engine had no springs, and its movement was a series of jolts, that injured the rails and shook the machinery apart. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
編輯:梅森