单词 Collocations with earthquake 释义

Collocations withearthquake

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destructive earthquakeFollowing a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically charged, as rescuers fight not against 'nature' but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures.From theCambridge English Corpusdevastating earthquakeThe first reports only a few weeks after this devastating earthquake reveal that tourist bookings have dropped drastically.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - Englishearthquake engineeringThe title is misleading in that the book is overwhelmingly concerned with details of earthquake engineering, risk and hazard evaluation, and local site assessment.From theCambridge English Corpusearthquake predictionThis was the first successful earthquake prediction in history.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.earthquake zoneThus did journalists and other writers traversing the earthquake zone report that the usual signs had indeed been noticed.From theCambridge English Corpusfrequent earthquakesThis area is not located at the margins of the earth's crustal plates where structural stresses may be released as frequent earthquakes and intense volcanicity.From theCambridge English Corpuslarge earthquakeIt is not only a pill to cure an earthquake; it is a very small pill to cure a large earthquake.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0major earthquakeSupposing there is a major earthquake or something like that, the money will be spent.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0massive earthquakeIt has to be a catastrophe of gigantic magnitude, like a massive earthquake.From theCambridge English Corpusminor earthquakeVarious houses in my district give the appearance of having suffered from a minor earthquake.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0powerful earthquakeEurope is not threatened by the danger of either tsunamis or such a powerful earthquake, hence direct conclusions should not be drawn from this unfortunate tragedy.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - Englishstrong earthquakeBeing constructed very solidly, the walls were generally unaffected by a strong earthquake occurring in 1667.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.violent earthquakeOnce stopped in the station, a violent earthquake would take place, destroying the entire station and climaxed in a massive flash flood.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/earthquake##