| 单词 | earthquake-shaken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearthquake-shaken b. Instrumental, as earthquake-rifted, earthquake-ruined, earthquake-shaken, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 27 New fire From earthquake-rifted mountains of bright snow Shook its portentous hair. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 129 Earthquake-swallowed cities. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 240 Silent villages, earthquake-shaken..gleam in white ruin. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Jan. 2/2 We do not intend to patronise the earthquake-haunted district. 1907 Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 6/7 The earthquake-smitten region. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia 25 Oh horrible Messina, earthquake-shattered. 1975 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 3 35/2 A former volunteer in Chile who was later asked to go to Peru to help rehabilitate an earthquake-damaged city. 1995 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 1 Nostalgic residents are reluctant to give up their beloved earthquake-ruined building to the wrecking ball. < as lemmas |
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