atrembleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

atremble (not comparable)

1. Trembling.

   Synonym: aquiver

   • 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Afternoon at a Parsonage”, in Poems‎^[1], London: Logmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, page 174:

     When the poplar leaves atremble
     Turn their edges to the light,

   • 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, New York: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 15, p. 181,^[2]

     To Jurgis this man’s whole presence reeked of the crime he had committed; the touch of his body […] set every nerve of him a-tremble […]

   • 1922, E. R. Eddison, chapter 25, in The Worm Ouroboros‎^[3], New York: Ballantine Books, published 1952, page 375:

     […] he beheld a tear a-tremble on her eyelid.

   • 1982, Stephen King, Cujo‎^[4], page 45:

     When her stomach felt better (but her legs were all atremble again, something lost, something gained), she looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.