cherub
cherub 英 [ˈtʃerəb] 美 [ˈtʃɛrəb]
n. 小天使；胖娃娃；天真美丽的儿童
名词复数:cherubs
- You might think of a rosy-faced child as a cherub, conjuring up an image of chubby, naked angels cavorting amongst the clouds. That image comes from the most familiar use of the word, which was to name an order of angels.
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- n. 小天使；胖娃娃；天真美丽的儿童
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1. One, pinned down by a cherub statuette and two single flowers, read simply: "Why?"
其中一张上面画着一个小天使和两朵小花，上面只是写着：“为什么？” （why？）
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2. The watercolour shows the cherub surrounded by her beauty products and holding various items.
这部水粉画中，环绕着小天使的是各种各样的美容产品和其他的物品。
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3. One day around 1950, as he passed a demolition site, he saw lying on the sidewalk the head of a cherub, cast in terra cotta.
1950年左右的一天，当他路过一座建筑的遗址时，他看到路旁躺着一个红土做的小天使的头。
- cherub (n.) late 14c. as an order of angels, from Late Latin cherub, from Greek cheroub, from Hebrew kerubh (plural kerubhim) "winged angel," which according to Klein is perhaps related to Akkadian karubu "to bless," karibu "one who blesses," an epithet of the bull-colossus. Old English had cerubin, from the Greek plural. But there are other theories:
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