earth-shattering

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishearth-shatteringˈearth-ˌshattering adjective IMPORTANTsurprising or shocking and very important an earth-shattering eventExamples from the Corpusearth-shattering• The computer world was abuzz with rumors of two potentially earth-shattering computers.• Hardly earth-shattering confessions, I admit.• A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema.• Being diagnosed with cancer was an earth-shattering experience.• All her consciousness was centred on that unfamiliar and earth-shattering friction.• Beware: if your conclusion contains earth-shattering information, your reader may miss it.• The documents were not of earth-shattering significance in themselves, but would help business.

单词	earth-shattering
释义	earth-shattering From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishearth-shatteringˈearth-ˌshattering adjective IMPORTANTsurprising or shocking and very important an earth-shattering eventExamples from the Corpusearth-shattering• The computer world was abuzz with rumors of two potentially earth-shattering computers.• Hardly earth-shattering confessions, I admit.• A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema.• Being diagnosed with cancer was an earth-shattering experience.• All her consciousness was centred on that unfamiliar and earth-shattering friction.• Beware: if your conclusion contains earth-shattering information, your reader may miss it.• The documents were not of earth-shattering significance in themselves, but would help business.
随便看	shake out of shake out off shake shake hands with shake somebody → down shake somebody/something ↔ off shake somebody/something ↔ up shake somebody’s confidence/beliefs etc shake somebody’s hand/shake hands with somebody shake something out of/off/from something shake something → out shake the foundations of shake to its foundations shake up shake with anger etc shake with emotion etc shake with fear etc shake with fear/laughter/anger etc shake with laughter etc shake with rage etc shake with rage/emotion etc shake your fist shake your fist (at somebody) shake your fist at shake your head shake-down