tremulous

英 [ˈtremjələs]

美 [ˈtremjələs]

adj.  (因紧张)颤抖的，战栗的; 使打战的; 使颤动的

GRE医学

BNC.26269 / COCA.24494

牛津词典

adj.

• （因紧张）颤抖的，战栗的；使打战的；使颤动的
  shaking slightly because you are nervous; causing you to shake slightly
  1. a tremulous voice
     颤抖的声音
  2. He was in a state of tremulous excitement.
     他激动得直发抖。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (声音或动作)震颤的，颤抖的，打战的；（笑容）怯生生的，不自然的
  If someone's voice, smile, or actions aretremulous, they are unsteady because the person is uncertain, afraid, or upset.
  1. She fidgeted in her chair as she took a deep, tremulous breath.
     她在椅子上坐立不安，轻颤着深吸了一口气。

英英释义

adj

• (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear
  1. the old lady's quavering voice
  2. spoke timidly in a tremulous voice
  Synonym:quavering

双语例句

• A tremulous sound; a quaver.
  颤音；震动；颤抖；发颤音。
• No bone had he to bind him, His speech was like the push Of numerous humming-birds at once His countenance a billow, His fingers, if he pass, Let go a music, as of tunes Blown tremulous in glass.
  没有骨头把它捆扎起来，它的话就像大群的蜂鸟同时拥拥挤挤它的容貌是一阵巨浪，它的手指，如果经过，会释放出一曲音乐，那曲调仿佛从玻璃中颤抖地吹出。
• More than once, he had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again, would come burdened with the black secret of his soul.
  他不止一次清好喉咙，颤抖着深吸一口长气，准备在再度吐气的同时，把他灵魂深处的阴暗秘密装上，一吐为快。
• ( in) a tremulous voice
  （以）颤抖的声音
• I asked, with a very tremulous voice. the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe.
  我用颤抖的声音问。
• Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender.
  把握它，感受它，每一丝的震颤纤细。
• The fabric of her life, of all that constituted her, quivered and grew tremulous.
  她生命的机制、她整个的结构都不禁震动、战栗起来。
• Men are timid, tremulous, rather soft and submissive, easy in their very henlike tremulousness.
  男人胆小发抖，非常温驯，并如母鸡一样瑟瑟发抖时才感到自在。
• As if he were not busy enough trying to steady chelsea's tremulous defence of the Premiership title, the midfielder this week turned his attention to the many debates surrounding the club.
  他似乎嫌努力稳定切尔西艰难的卫冕之路还不够自己忙的本周这位中场球员将注意力转移到了围绕着俱乐部的许多争论上。
• The old man's voice had become at once tremulous.
  老人的声音一下子变得颤抖了。