no obj.
- (of a person's voice) shake or tremble in speaking, typically through nervousness or emotion（人的嗓音）（尤指因紧张或激动而）颤抖。
1
- a shake or tremble in a person's voice（人的声音的）颤抖。
2
- 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.
派生词
quaveringly
adverbquavery
adjective词源
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.