earthquakes

英 [ˈɜːθkweɪks]

美 [ˈɜrθˌkweɪks]

n.  地震
earthquake的复数

柯林斯词典

• 地震
  Anearthquakeis a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the earth's crust.

双语例句

• Earthquakes produce two types of seismic waves
  地震产生两种地震波。
• It caused big fires, storms, acid rain, and even earthquakes and volcano eruptions.
  它引起了很大的火灾、暴风雨、酸雨、甚至地震和火山爆发。
• As a precaution against earthquakes, the building is being reinforced.
  为了防震，这座楼正在加固。
• In China itself storms, floods and earthquakes brought pestilence and suffering.
  在中国本土，暴雨、洪水和地震带来了瘟疫和苦难。
• Earthquakes can also cause tsunamis, which devastate coastal regions.
  地震还引发海啸，它直接破坏海岸地区的人和物。
• Floods and earthquakes are natural disasters.
  洪水和地震是自然灾害。
• It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.
  在每年会发生几十次地震的国家建造核电站简直就是愚蠢至极。
• They survived plague, famine, earthquakes and volcanoes.
  他们历经瘟疫、饥荒、地震和火山爆发存活下来。
• We can see this in the Chile and Alaska earthquakes.
  我们可以看到，在这方面，智利和阿拉斯加地震。
• Earthquakes leave scars in the earth's crust.
  地震会在地壳上留下裂痕。