| 单词 | earthquake |
| 释义 | earthquake (once / 406 pages) n If you're visiting your friend in California and her house starts to shake, you might be experiencing an earthquake, which is the shaking of the surface of the earth that happens when there's movement deep underground. Earthquake is one of those words that means exactly what it sounds like: the earth is quaking. Earthquakes happen along "fault lines," the places where the big plates of the earth meet and rub up against each other during volcanic activities. We also use earthquake metaphorically, to talk about something that causes a violent upheaval. WORD FAMILYearthquake: earthquakes USAGE EXAMPLESAnd earthquake monitors said there was no temblor. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Geological Survey says the back-to-back earthquakes hit Monday morning near Pawnee, about 75 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “There’s always reason to be concerned for a bigger earthquake,” Hauksson said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity Syn|Hypo|Hyper quake, seism, temblor seismic disturbance, shock an instance of agitation of the earth's crust earth tremor, microseism, tremora small earthquake seaquake, submarine earthquakean earthquake at the sea bed aftershocka tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake foreshocka tremor preceding an earthquake geological phenomenon a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth 2n a disturbance that is extremely disruptive selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees Hyper commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do a disorderly outburst or tumult |
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