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单词 tremulous
释义 tremulous, a.|ˈtrɛmjʊləs|
[f. L. tremul-us trembling, quivering, shaking (f. trem-ĕre to tremble, shake) + -ous.]
1. Of persons, their limbs, etc.: Characterized or affected by trembling or quivering from nervous agitation or weakness, of mental or physical origin; hence, fearful, timorous.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1623) 569 The Monkes [being] very tremulous to enter matter of new intrications.1667Decay Chr. Piety xi. 310 The tender tremulous Christian, 'tis easie to discern how much he must be distracted and amaz'd by them.1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. I. 310, I shall appear to be of an abject and tremulous spirit.1784Cowper Task ii. 729 His voice unstrung Grew tremulous.1897R. Hichens Londoners (1902) 101 She gained the purple drawing-room on rather tremulous feet.
b. Said of writing, a line, or the like, done by a tremulous hand; hence, finely wavy.
2. Of things: Characterized by trembling or vibration; vibratory; easily caused to vibrate or tremble.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymns, To Mother of Gods 4 That doth with Cymball sounds, delight her life; and tremulous diuisions of the Fife.1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 21 In my long Telescope I can some days see a tremulous Motion and Agitation of rowling fumes, and strong Atoms in the air.1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 265 A tremulous motion which this animal [torpedo] is found to possess.1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 497 Gelatine, or jelly,..has a soft tremulous consistence.1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 6 The tremulous ripple on the surface of the sea.
b. Ready to vibrate in response to some influence; also fig. tremblingly sensitive or responsive.
1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xlix. 349 Columns of marble or porphyry are tremulous to thunder explosions, and to certain tones of an organ.1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. i. (1870) 3 He is tremulous..to all the influences of the hour and scene.
3. Affecting the organs of taste with a trembling or quivering sensation. Obs. rare.
1675Grew Disc. Tasts Plants i. §15 Tasts are either Still, as usually; or may be called Tremulous, as the Heat produced by Pyrethrum.1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 39 Grew..finds in Plants sixteen sorts of Tastes... 16. Tremulous, as the Root of wild Pellitory.
4. Characterized by use of the tremolo in singing. (nonce-use.)
1884Pall Mall G. 26 July 4/1 He quivered and shook himself all to pieces with the tremulous fever now so fashionable.1887Daily News 25 July 4/8 The tremulous vocalists one after the other failed to win popular favour.
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