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单词 shudder
释义
shudder
verb[I]
uk
/ˈʃʌd.ər/us
/ˈʃʌd.ɚ/
C2
toshakesuddenlywith verysmallmovementsbecause of a veryunpleasantthoughtorfeeling:
（因有令人不快的想法或感觉而）战栗，发抖
Thesightof so muchbloodmade him shudder.看到那么多的血，他不禁浑身战栗。
She shudderedat thethoughtofkissinghim.她一想到亲吻他就禁不住发抖。
When something shudders, itshakesviolentlyandquickly:
剧烈震动
Iheardamassiveexplosionand thegroundshuddered beneath me.我听到一声巨大的爆炸声，脚下的地面随之剧烈震动。
There was ascreechofbrakesand thebusshudderedto ahalt(=shookviolentlyandstopped).伴随着一声尖厉的急刹车声，公共汽车剧烈地晃动着停了下来。
More examples
  • Shelookedup at thegreyskyand shuddered.
  • I still shudder when Ithinkof theriskswe took.
  • She shuddered withhorror.
  • I shudder at thethoughtofeatingthefatonmeat.
  • I don't like tothinkabout gettingcloseto him - it makes me shudder.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making short, sudden movements
  • aquiver
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • convulsive
  • cringe
  • flick
  • jerkily
  • jerkiness
  • jerky
  • jig
  • jiggle
  • quake
  • quiver
  • recoil
  • shaky
  • squirm
  • toss
  • tremulous
  • whip
  • worry atsomething
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Idioms

I shudder to think
shudder to a halt
shudder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃʌd.ər/us
/ˈʃʌd.ɚ/
theactof shuddering:
发抖，战栗
Hegave aslightshudder as heconsideredhowclosehe had come todeath.想到自己曾与死神那么接近，他禁不住微微发抖。
Sherecalledwith ashudder how herbosshadoncetriedtokissher.她回想起她的老板如何试图强吻她时，不禁浑身颤抖。
figurativeAmerica's secondbiggestsupermarketchainhassentashudderthrough(= has had astrongeffecton)itsrivalsbyslashingitsprices.美国的第二大连锁超市通过大幅降价给对手造成极大的震动。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making short, sudden movements
  • aquiver
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • convulsive
  • cringe
  • flick
  • jerkily
  • jerkiness
  • jerky
  • jig
  • jiggle
  • quake
  • quiver
  • recoil
  • shaky
  • squirm
  • toss
  • tremulous
  • whip
  • worry atsomething
See more results »

Idiom

send shudders/a shudder downyourspine
(Definition ofshudderfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

shudder| American Dictionary

shudder
verb[I]
us
/ˈʃʌd·ər/
toshakesuddenlyandbriefly,esp. because of anunpleasantthoughtorfeeling:
I shuddered,rememberingthefrighteningstoriesI hadheard.
shudder
noun[C]
us
/ˈʃʌd·ər/
asuddenandbriefshakingmovementof thebody,esp. because of anunpleasantemotion:
When thecarflippedover, a shudder went through thecrowdwatchingtherace.
Justthinkingabout thatfilmsendsshudders down myspine.
(Definition ofshudderfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshudder

shudder
The economy virtually shuddered to a halt and the modest growth that had been achieved was lost.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If we agree that it is preferable to exist than not to exist, then we may naturallyshudderat the thought of our own nonexistence.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But not many steps had he gone ere his strength went out of him, and he shuddered.
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And as they led him he had a sense of purification so sweet he shuddered again and again.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I can't see postal packets without shuddering, expecting the worst.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The ground shuddered beneath them and shrapnel sprayed indiscriminately.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Why, to put the question baldly, do these interpreters - or we -shudderwith horror and blush with embarrassment at these moments?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Such phraseology always makes historiansshudder, as one's instinct is to want to see the original.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Our psyche and soul shudders at losing control.
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For him, its role was 'to portray the secretshudderof mystical powers still more clearly'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Ishudderto think what the plight of the others must be.
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One shudders at the thought of the suffering that must go on in rain or snow, or in midsummer heat.
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Ishudderto think that, if war came again, these airliners would give place to monsters of destruction.
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The whole clockwork arrangement on the floor came to a shuddering halt when that man ran it into the ground.
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Surely that small sum cannot send ashudderof dismay through bureaucratic hearts hardened by years of vast expenditure.
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