Palsy

(noun.) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor.

(verb.) affect with palsy.

校对:玛吉

• His limbs were shaking with disease, and the palsy had fastened on his mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Her faculties were palsied. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But not again did he return with a stout man and wife; for this time, he led in two palsied women, who shook and tottered as they walked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Get on,' rejoined Eugene, tapping his palsied head with the fire-shovel, as it sank on his breast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I told her how the fear of her danger palsied my exertions, how the knowledge of her safety strung my nerves to endurance. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

编辑:汤姆