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单词 tremblor
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tremblorn.

/ˈtrɛmblɔː/
Etymology: Alteration of Spanish temblor shudder, (in American Spanish) earthquake, influenced by English trembler n.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
An earthquake or earth tremor.
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1913 C. C. Goodwin As I remember Them 193 He..received the sobriquet of ‘Earthquake’ Stewart, because of the theory that he put out, that the tremblors in California were caused..by.. electrical disturbances in the air and in the earth near the surface.
1925 N.Y. Times 1 July 2/2 Dr. U. S. Grant..does not agree with Prof. Goode that the same tremblors shook Montana and California.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 July 1/5 Today's shocks occurred in areas more than 100 miles removed from the lower coast line, where tremblors were felt yesterday.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. i. 10/5 Californians, long accustomed to earthquake jitters, have become concerned over a rapid-fire series of minor tremblors along a 20-miles stretch of the mysterious San Andreas Fault.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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