cradle
英['kre?d(?)l]
美['kredl]
- n. 搖籃；發源地；發祥地；支船架
- vt. 撫育；把...擱在支架上；把...放在搖籃內
詞態變化
復數:?cradles;第三人稱單數:?cradles;過去式:?cradled;過去分詞:?cradled;現在分詞:?cradling;
中文詞源
cradle 搖籃
來自PIE*sker, 彎，轉，編織，詞源同ring, crib.
英文詞源
- cradle (n.)
- "baby's bed," c. 1200, cradel, from Old English cradol "little bed, cot," from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz "basket" (cognates: Old High German kratto, krezzo "basket," German Kr?tze "basket carried on the back"). From late 14c. as "device for holding or hoisting." Cat's cradle is so called from 1768. Cradle-snatching "amorous pursuit of younger person" is from 1906.
"It's like cradle-snatching to want to marry a girl of sixteen, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, for you can't be much more than twenty one yourself." ["Edith Van Dyne" (L. Frank Baum), "Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad," 1906]
- cradle (v.)
- c. 1500, from cradle (n.). Related: Cradled; cradling.
雙語例句
- 1. Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.
- 馬里是非洲一些最悠久的文明的發祥地。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.
- 我把聽筒放回聽筒架上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.
- 他把牽引支架固定在船體上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She rocked the baby to sleep in its cradle.
- 她搖動搖籃哄嬰兒入睡。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. a cradle swathed in draperies and blue ribbon
- 扎著打褶裝飾織物和藍色緞帶的搖籃
來自《權威詞典》