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 whole house shook during the earthquake.
地震时整个房子都摇动了。 - 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 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 continued for about two minutes.
地震持续了大约两分钟。 - 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。 - A big earthquake a long way off is preferable to a smaller one nearby
远处发生大地震总比在附近发生小地震好。 - The earthquake caused many buildings to collapse.
地震使许多建筑物倾倒。 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck California yesterday.
昨天加利福尼亚发生了里氏6.1级地震。 - 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。 - An earthquake sometimes destroys whole cities.
地震有时会摧毁整个城市。