| 单词 | world-shaking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld-shaking world-shaking adj. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 402 World-shaking Father. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 16/1 Unless, indeed, some awful world-shaking revolution shall peradventure pass once more over the races of mankind. 1893 Harper's Mag. Dec. 36/1 The..tragic and world-shaking events which are associated with the history of the..Parliament of Great Britain. 1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned viii. 121 Events of the last twenty years which Robert Kerridge looks upon as world shaking, would not look like that to me. 2003 J. Bowden tr. H. Küng My Struggle for Freedom iii. 80 He sharply admonished us to observe particular rules, and preached against world-shaking bad habits like closing lift doors loudly. < as lemmas |
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