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quaver

verb
🔊/ˈkweɪvə(r)/
🔊/ˈkweɪvər/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they quaver
🔊/ˈkweɪvə(r)/
🔊/ˈkweɪvər/
he / she / it quavers
🔊/ˈkweɪvəz/
🔊/ˈkweɪvərz/
past simple quavered
🔊/ˈkweɪvəd/
🔊/ˈkweɪvərd/
past participle quavered
🔊/ˈkweɪvəd/
🔊/ˈkweɪvərd/
-ing form quavering
🔊/ˈkweɪvərɪŋ/
🔊/ˈkweɪvərɪŋ/
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  1. (+ speech) if somebody’s voice quavers, it is unsteady, usually because the person is nervous or afraid（嗓音因紧张或害怕等）颤抖，颤动
    • ‘I'm not safe here, am I?’ she asked in a quavering voice.“我在这里不安全吧？” 她用颤抖的声音问道。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuaver is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • voice
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    Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the general sense ‘tremble’): from dialect quave ‘quake, tremble’, probably from an Old English word related to quake. The noun is first recorded (mid 16th cent.) as a musical term.

quaver

noun
🔊/ˈkweɪvə(r)/
🔊/ˈkweɪvər/
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  1. (British English)
    (North American English eighth note)
    (music音乐) a note that lasts half as long as a crotchet八分音符
    Topics Musicc2
  2. [usually singular] a shaking sound in somebody’s voice颤抖的嗓音
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the general sense ‘tremble’): from dialect quave ‘quake, tremble’, probably from an Old English word related to quake. The noun is first recorded (mid 16th cent.) as a musical term.