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shiver (up and) down your spine idiom informal a frightened or excited feeling: (因恐惧或兴奋而)脊背发凉,战栗 At its most terrifying, his writing sends shivers up and down my spine.读到他作品中最恐怖的部分时,我不由得脊背发凉。 Whenever I hear that music, I feel a shiver down my spine.无论何时听到那段音乐,我都会感到一阵战栗。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Frightening and scaring chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight frighten/scare someone out of their witsidiom ghoulish ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of someoneidiom scare/frighten the life out of someoneidiom scaremongering shiver witless
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