(of a person's voice) shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion (人的嗓音)颤抖(尤指因紧张或激动而)
noun
a shake or tremble in a person's voice (人的声音的)颤抖
(Music, chiefly Brit.)a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreve or half a crotchet, represented by a large dot with a hooked stem (乐主英)八分音符。 亦称eighth note
派生 quaveringly adverb quavery adjective 语源
late 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