tremor 復習
Japan earthquake: Child and two men dead and hundreds injured
A strong earthquake in Osaka, Japan has killed at least three people, including a child, and injured more than 200.
Airports in the area were closed for several hours, train lines interrupted and factories had to halt production.
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'I thought my time was up'
Atsushi Yokoi, a research scientist who lives in Ibaraki-shi near the epicentre of the tremor, told the BBC he was asleep when the quake struck.
以下省略
https://www.google.co.jp/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-44516531
“tremor”を取りあげます。まず“tremor”をLDOCEで引いてみると、“a small earthquake in which the ground shakes slightly”と載っていました。『ジーニアス英和大辞典』には、「（地面などの）震動(earth〜), 揺れ(shake);(光などの)ゆらめき;微動」とありました。
続いてODEで語源を調べてみると、“early 17th cent. : from Latin tremor, from tremere ‘to tremble’.”と定義されていました。
以上のことから記事では、震源地の近くである茨木市と訳すことができると思われます。 (Otoyo)
