EARTHQUAKE

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earthquake substantiv

1. cutremur (de pământ).

2. (fig.) cutremur(are), zguduire, comoţie; cataclism (social etc.), frământare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Earthquakes were also mapped.

(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)

The clergyman looked up at the speaker and stood mute; the clerk did the same; Mr. Rochester moved slightly, as if an earthquake had rolled under his feet: taking a firmer footing, and not turning his head or eyes, he said, Proceed.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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