Quiver
['kwɪvə] or ['kwɪvɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) case for holding arrows.
(verb.) shake with fast, tremulous movements; 'His nostrils palpitated'.
安娜贝拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:诺琳
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. [1]. Quake, shake, quaver, bicker, be tremulous.[2]. Tremble, shudder, shiver.
塞西莉整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Shake, shiver, vibrate, tremble, quake,[See PLEASURE]
黛娜編輯
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.
校對:斯宾塞
例句/造句/用法:
- Heaven was cloudless, and grand with the quiver of its living fires. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver, and handed it to his companion. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 雪麗.
- I don't know what you DO mean, said Mrs. Peniston, with a frightened quiver in her small fretful voice. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The mouth seemed formed less to speak than to quiver, less to quiver than to kiss. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The quiver was not emptied, nor the bow unstrung. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Don't say so, Vincy, said the mother, with a quivering lip, if you don't want him to be taken from me. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- His tutor placed him in a chair; his lips were quivering, his eyes brimming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Say that it does so,' returned Bradley with quivering lips; 'is there no cause for it? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Not,' returned Bella, with quivering lips; 'not Harmon? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He was quivering with silent laughter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The broad brown face of it heaved slowly, and then dimpled and quivered all over. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Mr. Jingle's face gradually relaxed; and something distantly resembling a wink quivered for an instant in his left eye. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Indignation quivered on her lip; but it was quelled by the secret voice which warned her that she must not quarrel with him. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Her eyes were round and wondering, bewildered, her mouth quivered slightly. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Her arms quivered and were strong, immeasurably and irresistibly strong. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
錄入:朱莉