A concussion happens when the brain is shaken, often in a car crash or a fall or a strike to the head in sports.

VOA: special.2009.10.28

So many of our financial institutions were created in the 1930s because that was a time when everything was being shaken up and it was a time when people were willing to consider something really different.

由于大萧条时期的动荡,和对人们生活的冲击,人们便愿意想一些与以往不同的东西,所以自那时之后,大量的金融衍生工具如雨后春笋般的出现了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Plans were in place for a 25th anniversary re-recording of "We Are The World" when Haiti was shaken by a devastating earthquake on January 12.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18