0 a slight shaking movement in a person's body, especially because of nervousness or excitement:
1 a shaking movement in a person’s body, usually because of fright, excitement, or illness:
2 a slight earthquake (= sudden, violent movement of the earth’s surface):
There were several tremors and some public buildings, such as chapels, had to be demolished because of the damage sustained.
Three weeks ago there were tremors in the position of the £—in my view, quite unjustifiable.
On the following day it had another fit in which tremors of all the muscles, including those of the left hind leg, were involved.
There have been tremors in that area in the past couple of years, some of them substantial.
We have now changed the emphasis of that reply, mainly because of the increased incidence of earth tremors.
The problems we are facing today, economic and sociological, may be only earth tremors compared to earthquakes to come.
At a time of massive unemployment an underlying nervousness appears throughout the whole of industry: tremors affect workers and management in every quarter.
In some areas earth tremors are triggered by mining.
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(尤指因緊張或興奮)顫抖,發抖, 輕微地震,小地震…
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(尤指因紧张或兴奋)颤抖,发抖, 轻微地震,小地震…
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temblor, temblor de tierra…
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tremor, tremor de terra…
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hafif yer sarsıntısı, ufak deprem, ürperti…
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tremblement…
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otřes, záchvěv…
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rystelse, jordrystelse…
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