资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Quiver \Quiv"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quivered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Quivering}.] [Cf. {Quaver}.]
   To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to
   tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.

         The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. --Shak.

         And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.
                                                  --Addison.

资料来源 : WordNet®

quivering
     adj : vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or
           cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a
           quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more";
           "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking
           knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light
           from the shivering crystals of the chandelier";
           "trembling hands" [syn: {quaking}, {shaking}, {shaky},
           {shivering}, {trembling}]
     n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his
          pipe" [syn: {shaking}, {shakiness}, {trembling}, {quiver},
           {vibration}, {palpitation}]
     2: the act of vibrating [syn: {vibration}, {quiver}]