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词汇 quivering
释义 quivering
present participle ofquiver
quiver
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈkwɪv.ər/ us /ˈkwɪv.ɚ/
to shake slightly, often because of strong emotion: (常指因激动而)颤抖,发抖
Lennie's bottom lip quivered and tears started in his eyes.伦尼的下唇颤抖着,眼里涌出了泪花。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making short, sudden movements
aquiver
chatter
choppily
choppiness
convulse
convulsion
jar
jerk
jerkily
jerkiness
jerky
quake
quiver
recoil
shaky
shook
shudder
squirm
toss
whip

Examples of quivering


quivering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Quivering from excitement or nervousness is easily transferable through fingertips, and received by the listener as an expression, even if artificial, of that particular state.
The manner in which this was done was so approachable and friendly that it immediately put a quivering wreck on a more even keel.
The quivering motion can be identified as the fluctuations of the mean rotation motion.
Besides this spinning motion, the grain may also exhibit a quivering motion corresponding to fluctuations on the mean spinning motion.
Janet asked the first of her many highly considered questions and the quivering began again in earnest!
I can only suppose it would reduce him to a quivering pinkish jelly, because the arguments really would not overwhelm a dead fly.
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I have seen men quivering with fear, green with fear but going on and behaving like heroes.
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On both sides people live in quivering peace.
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They are trying to hide, quivering, behind their officials when there is no doubt where the constitutional responsibility lies.
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He launched upon us facts and figures which our quivering intellects could hardly grasp.
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Will he stop acting like a quivering jellyfish?
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We have heard enough quivering voices.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Today, we could hear the gears grinding as he came before us, lip quivering once again, to eat all those words that he has pronounced so emphatically for so long.
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We are living in a quivering peace.
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I wished to put her right in that if she bought a car and saw the needle quivering, that would not necessarily mean that it had been clocked.
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