vibrate

英 [va?'bre?t] 美['va?bret]

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第三人稱單數:?vibrates;過去式:?vibrated;過去分詞:?vibrated;現在分詞:?vibrating;

vibrate 顫動

來自拉丁語vibrare,前后移動，顫動，來自PIE*weip,轉，搖擺，來自PIE*wei的擴大形式，詞源同wipe,wire.

vibrate: vibrate: [17] Vibrate comes from Latin vibrāre ‘move quickly to and fro, shake’. This went back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *wib-, *weib- ‘move quickly to and fro’, which also produced English weave ‘move to and fro’ (as in ‘weave through the traffic’), whip, and wipe.
=> weave, whip, wipe
vibrate (v.): 1610s (intransitive) "move to and fro;" 1660s, "swing to and fro;" from Latin vibratus, past participle of vibrare "set in tremulous motion, move quickly to and fro, quiver, tremble, shake," from PIE *wib-ro-, from root *weip- "to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically, move quickly to and fro" (cognates: Lithuanian wyburiu "to wag" (the tail), Danish vippe, Dutch wippen "to swing," Old English wipan "to wipe"). Transitive sense "cause to vibrate" is from c. 1700. Related: Vibrated; vibrating.

2. "Opium" is a provocative, sensual, and voluptuous fragrance which makes all your senses vibrate.: “鴉片”是一種刺激性的、能引起感官快感的香料，能使你所有的感官興奮起來。

3. It's important to tighten up the wheels properly, otherwise they vibrate loose and fall off.: 把輪子擰緊是很重要的，否則它們會因振動松動、脫落。

4. The ear has a set of filaments to vibrate in resonance with incoming sound-waves.: 耳朵里有一組細絲能和進入的聲波產生共振。