例文・使い方で印象づける「jerky」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... His legs were stiff, imparting a halting, jerky motionto his gait... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
... “I wish I could; the anxiety is wearing me out more’n him,” he added with a jerky movement of the head in direction of the inner cell...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The common name—Skippers—isdue to the habit of the butterflies—a jerky,skipping flight as they wing their erratic way from flowerto flower...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...After each performance theypursue each other, passing from bush to bush with a wild jerky flight,and uttering harsh angry notes...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The cuckoo glides through the air as easily as if he werefloating down stream, whereas the thrasher's flight, like the wren's,is tilting, uneven, flapping, and often jerky...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...He asks you no questions in jerky,colloquial triplets of song, so you may know by his voice at leastthat he is not the red-eyed vireo...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...A yard or two away ashaggy dog was rising from the tumble caused bythe jerky uptossing of the bull's head...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...This jerky shift of position, on the part of the foe, spoiled Bruce'saim...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Bruce」
...Swaying withthe jerky motion, but managing to brace himself, he peered through theinky darkness toward the steps leading to the deck...
Forrestine C. Hooker 「Prince Jan, St. Bernard」
...The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky,like that of a butterfly...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Thisis no cartage by a team hauling in the open, but a jerky displacement,the work of invisible levers...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...For a long time, with jerky steps,the mother explores the body in every direction; she takes her stand bypreference on the head, which she sounds by tapping on it with herfront tarsi...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...He came easily enough till his tailcleared the water; then the wiggling, jerky strain was too much...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...Slower and slower the motion of thecreature became, and its movements again became jerky and convulsive...
Victor Rousseau 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930」
...Racked by these thoughts, he murmured tortured, jerky phrases,unconscious he was giving voice to the things that flogged his brain...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Anothertottered with jerky steps to the edge of the roof and plungedheadlong, crashing with a great metal clatter to the stone paving ofthe ground...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...Luminous, white disks, three feet in diameter, glared at him,and the creature, which progressed with jerky leaps toward him, almostfilled the mouth of the mine...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
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