cradle
cradle 英 [ˈkreɪdl] 美 [ˈkredl]
n. 摇篮；发源地；发祥地；支船架 vt. 抚育；把...搁在支架上；把...放在摇篮内
进行时:cradling 过去式:cradled 过去分词:cradled 第三人称单数:cradles 名词复数:cradles
- To cradle is to hold delicately and gently, like how you would hold an infant. A cradle is the tiny bed with rockers that the infant sleeps in.
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- n. 摇篮；发源地；发祥地；支船架
- vt. 抚育；把...搁在支架上；把...放在摇篮内
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1. The baby was rocked asleep in the cradle.
婴儿在摇篮里被摇得入睡了。
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2. O! The Huanghe （River）， cradle of the Chinese nation.
啊! 黄河， 你是中华民族的摇篮。
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3. The sea is running high; the boat is rocking like a cradle.
海上波涛汹涌，小船像摇篮似的来回摇摆。
- cradle (n.) "baby's bed," usually mounted on rockers or suspended for rocking or swinging, c. 1200, cradel, from Old English cradol "little bed, cot," from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz "basket" (source also of Old High German kratto, krezzo "basket," German Krätze "basket carried on the back").
- cradle (v.) c. 1400, "place or rock in or as in a cradle," from cradle (n.). From 1750 as "cut (grain) with a cradle." By 1944 as "hang up a telephone receiver." Related: Cradled; cradling.
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