Temblar in english
pronunciation: trembəl part of speech: verb
temblar = tremble ; quail ; shiver ; wince ; dodder ; quiver ; twitch ; shake ; judder ; quake.
Example: The organization was trembling on the brink of financial disaster, and only the journal, American Documentation, was holding it together.Example: But Elwood Bibeau quailed no more now than he had quailed at being assigned tasks in his present position as an assistant director.Example: I shivered with the intensity of my desire to do this wondrous thing myself.Example: Librarians across the country winced at that notion.Example: The book portrays orchid growers as elderly with huge greenhouses where they doddered around caring for these erotic plants.Example: With blood trickling from his mouth, his glazed eyes staring up at the ring lights, and his left foot quivering, the Swede was counted out.Example: He was really fat, too, with a massive pink beard and eyes that twitched all the time and looked in different directions to each other.Example: This attitude had to go and by the 1830s it was shaking.Example: Sometimes, while braking to a stop, the car judders just as it comes to a stop.Example: I stood on a solid hill, and it quaked like jelly or like some small house on the edge of a railway line when a heavy train thunders by.more:
» echarse a temblar = get in(to) + a sweat ; get in(to) + a lather .
Example: But if you don't agree with my views; don't get in a sweat about it; let me know what you think. Example: But the country should be grown-up enough at this point not to get into a lather over something so utterly trivial.» echarse a temblar con sólo pensar en = shudder at + the thought of .
Example: I shudder at the thought of actually having to live in one of these God-forsaken places.» estar temblando de miedo = be frightened to death ; be scared to death .
Example: However there are a number of reports out there of people being frightened to death by ghosts. Example: A Texas woman tearfully told jurors Monday that she was 'scared to death' and held against her will by her employer after being drugged and sexually assaulted.» hacer temblar los cimientos de Algo = shake + foundations .
Example: In the map library, the electronic medium is shaking the foundations of cartographic communication and threatening the bring the walls crashing down.» ponerse a temblar con sólo pensar en = shudder at + the thought of .
Example: I shudder at the thought of actually having to live in one of these God-forsaken places.» temblar como una hoja = shake like + a leaf ; tremble like + a leaf .
Example: 15 minutes later she was eating her breakfast like nothing ever happened, but I was shaking like a leaf. Example: During the wedding ceremony he trembled like a leaf, and made the wrong responses to the clergyman.» temblar como un azogado = shake like + a leaf ; tremble like + a leaf .
Example: 15 minutes later she was eating her breakfast like nothing ever happened, but I was shaking like a leaf. Example: During the wedding ceremony he trembled like a leaf, and made the wrong responses to the clergyman.» temblar como un flan = shake like + a leaf ; tremble like + a leaf .
Example: 15 minutes later she was eating her breakfast like nothing ever happened, but I was shaking like a leaf. Example: During the wedding ceremony he trembled like a leaf, and made the wrong responses to the clergyman.» temblar de miedo = shake in + Posesivo + boots ; quake in + Posesivo + boots ; quake with + fear ; quake with + fright ; tremble in + Posesivo + boots ; shake with + fear ; shake with + fright ; tremble with + fright ; tremble with + fear .
Example: Small potatoes now, but back then, the shy girl in me was shaking in her boots, so much so that you could actually see the microphone shaking. Example: In all likelihood she is quaking in her boots, terrified that you will think she's too stupid or inexperienced to be worth your time. Example: She has made people quake with fear and roar with laughter since 1986, when her first horror novel hit bookstores. Example: She sprang to the door, flung it open, and disappeared, leaving the husband and wife dumfounded and quaking with fright. Example: Her knees knocked and her feet trembled in her boots, but she looked him straight in the eye. Example: I can still remember sitting in the dentist chair shaking with fear. Example: Rebran felt his soul shaking with fright when he looked into those cold azure eyes. Example: His legs were beginning to tremble with fright and felt as though they were not going to support him much longer. Example: What is it about bats that make us tremble with fear?.» temblar de susto = quake in + Posesivo + boots ; quake with + fear ; quake with + fright ; tremble in + Posesivo + boots ; shake with + fear ; shake with + fright ; tremble with + fright ; tremble with + fear .
Example: In all likelihood she is quaking in her boots, terrified that you will think she's too stupid or inexperienced to be worth your time. Example: She has made people quake with fear and roar with laughter since 1986, when her first horror novel hit bookstores. Example: She sprang to the door, flung it open, and disappeared, leaving the husband and wife dumfounded and quaking with fright. Example: Her knees knocked and her feet trembled in her boots, but she looked him straight in the eye. Example: I can still remember sitting in the dentist chair shaking with fear. Example: Rebran felt his soul shaking with fright when he looked into those cold azure eyes. Example: His legs were beginning to tremble with fright and felt as though they were not going to support him much longer. Example: What is it about bats that make us tremble with fear?.» temblar las piernas = quake at + the knees .
Example: His ability to fast put everyone at ease, when we were all quaking at the knees, was the first thing that impressed me about him.» temblar las rodillas = go + weak in the knees [Generalmente debido a una emoción fuerte] ; knees + knock .
Example: The first time I saw my husband I went weak in the knees -- now when I see him, my stomach turns. Example: Her knees knocked and her feet trembled in her boots, but she looked him straight in the eye.