
cradle基本信息
读法:英 ["kreɪd(ə)l] 美 ["kredl]
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英英释义
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中英词源
cradle 摇篮
来自PIE*sker, 弯,转,编织,词源同ring, crib.
- 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 Krätze "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.
词态变化
复数 cradles;
第三人称单数 cradles;
过去式 cradled;
过去分词 cradled;
现在分词 cradling;
权威造句
- 1. Mali is the cradle of some of Africa"s richest civilizations.
- 马里是非洲一些最悠久的文明的发祥地。
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- 2. I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.
- 我把听筒放回听筒架上。
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- 3. He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.
- 他把牵引支架固定在船体上。
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- 4. She rocked the baby to sleep in its cradle.
- 她摇动摇篮哄婴儿入睡。
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- 5. a cradle swathed in draperies and blue ribbon
- 扎着打褶装饰织物和蓝色缎带的摇篮
来自《权威词典》
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