earthquake
英 [ˈɜːθkweɪk]
美 [ˈɜːrθkweɪk]
n. 地震
复数：earthquakes
Collins.2 / BNC.6891 / COCA.4261
牛津词典
noun
- 地震
a sudden, violent shaking of the earth's surface
柯林斯词典
- 地震
Anearthquakeis a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the earth's crust.
英英释义
noun
- shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
- a disturbance that is extremely disruptive
- selling the company caused an earthquake among the employees
双语例句
- The earthquake was the occasion of the building's collapse.
地震是房屋倒塌的起因。 - Several countries in eastern Europe are counting the cost of yesterday's earthquake
东欧的几个国家正在计算昨天的地震带来的损失。 - The shock waves of the earthquake were felt in Teheran
地震带来的冲击波在德黑兰也能感觉到。 - There came an explosion, not so much a bang as a shaking like an earthquake.
发生了一次爆炸，没听到一声轰然巨响，倒像是地震那样地面猛晃了晃。 - Many of the 100,000 or so families who lost their homes in the earthquake have still not been rehoused
有10万户左右的家庭在地震中失去了家园，其中许多家庭还没有得到安置。 - An earthquake sometimes destroys whole cities.
地震有时会摧毁整个城市。 - About two-hundred people died in the earthquake which hit northern Peru
约200人在秘鲁北部发生的地震中丧生。 - A powerful earthquake struck the Italian island of Sicily early this morning
今日凌晨意大利西西里岛发生强地震。 - The earthquake had its epicentre two-hundred kilometres north-east of the capital.
那次地震的震中位于首都东北200公里处。 - The earthquake killed 62 people
地震导致62人死亡。