- 1nB2/ˈɜːrθkweɪk/ · /ˈɜːθkweɪk/地震
a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface that can break buildings, roads, and other things.
示範例句 · Example
Did you feel the earthquake last night? The cups rattled on the shelf.
逐字你感覺到昨晚的地震了嗎？杯子在架子上喀喀響。
earthquake 的核心意思是「地面突然搖起來」——大地在短時間內劇烈晃動，有時會讓房子、道路受損。核心畫面可以想成「大地突然抖一下」：earth（大地）+ quake（震動）合起來就是這個字。比 tremor（較小的震動）強；aftershock 是大地震之後又來的餘震。臺灣常練 earthquake drill（地震演習），就是因為這裡比較常感覺到地面搖。
常見搭配
a major / powerful earthquake
大地震／強震
a very strong earthquake
A major earthquake hit the coast last year.
a minor / small earthquake
小地震
a weak earthquake that usually causes little damage
The town feels small earthquakes almost every month.
an earthquake hits / strikes a place
地震襲擊／發生於某地
an earthquake suddenly happens in a place
An earthquake struck southern Taiwan before sunrise.
an earthquake zone
地震帶／地震區
an area where earthquakes often happen
Building rules are stricter in an earthquake zone.
the magnitude of an earthquake
地震規模（震級）
how strong an earthquake is, shown as a number
The magnitude of the earthquake was 5.8.
an earthquake drill
地震演習
practice of what to do when the ground shakes
Every semester we have an earthquake drill at school.
core核心畫面
The word is built from exactly what it names: earth + quake, the ground shaking. You can hold the picture of the one surface everyone treats as fixed — the floor you stand on — suddenly moving under you, so that lamps swing, water tips out of a glass, and walls can crack. Everything the word does grows out of that: the ground itself, the thing nothing is supposed to move, moves.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
earthquakenoun/ˈɜːθkweɪk/
- 1
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- I had just awoke at gun-fire (5 A.M.), when suddenly the thatch began to rustle and shake as if an army of cats were galloping over it, and immediately afterwards my bed shook too, so that for an instant I imagined myself back in New Guinea, in my fragile house, which shook when an old cock went to roost on the ridge; but remembering that I was now on a solid earthen floor, I said to myself, "Why, it's an earthquake," and lay still in the pleasing expectation of another shock; but none came, and this was the only earthquake I ever felt in Ternate.
- 2
Such a quake specifically occurring on the planet Earth, as opposed to other celestial bodies.
- Since the response of some man-made structures to the ground motion near the epicenter is highly dependent on frequency, a significant difference in potential damage to the structures is expected between earthquakes and moonquakes.
- The wave patterns, too, are strikingly different: The secondary (S) waves and surface waves on lunar seismograms are not generally as clearly defined and distinct as are those of earthquakes.
- 3
A sudden and intense upheaval; a severely disruptive event.
- As we have seen, economic earthquakes often result in political shockwaves. […] He highlights a correlation between those states with the highest robot density and those states that unexpectedly swung behind Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, namely Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
- Leo Varadkar has announced he is standing down as Ireland’s prime minister and also giving up his role as leader of the Fine Gael party in the ruling coalition, in a surprise move described by pundits as a “political earthquake” for the country.
earthquakeverb/ˈɜːθkweɪk/
- 1
To undergo an earthquake.
- Watch the Philippines very closely for the next little while. There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.
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