cradle
n. 搖籃; 發源地; 支架,聽筒架
v. 輕輕抱著
A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side.
The cradle is the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests while it is not being used.
I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.
我把聽筒放回聽筒架上。
A cradle is a frame which supports or protects something.
He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.
他把牽引支架固定在船體上。
A place that is referred to as the cradle of something is the place where it began.
Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.
馬裡是非洲一些最悠久的文明的發祥地。
...New York, the cradle of capitalism.
紐約,資本主義的發源地
If you cradle someone or something in your arms or hands, you hold them carefully and gently.
I cradled her in my arms...
我把她輕輕地抱在懷裡。
He was sitting at the big table cradling a large bowl of milky coffee.
他坐在一張大桌子旁,手裡捧著一大碗加了牛奶的咖啡。
If something affects you from the cradle to the grave, it affects you throughout your life.
The bond of brotherhood was one to last from the cradle to the grave.
兄弟之情會延續一輩子。
1. a baby bed with sides and rockers
2. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;
3. birth of a person;
4. a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold
1. hold gently and carefully;
2. bring up from infancy
3. hold or place in or as if in a cradle;
4. cut grain with a cradle scythe
5. wash in a cradle;
6. run with the stick
To reap ( grain ) with a cradle.
收割用附有搖籃架的大鐮刀收割 ( 作物 )
Cairo, the cradle of civilization, the Melting Pot of Ancient and Modern Egyptian Civilizations.
開羅, 文明的搖籃, 埃及古老文明和現代文明的大熔爐.
Remember to put the telephone back in the cradle when you've finished.
打完電話別忘了把話筒放回聽筒架上.
Switzerland is hereby known as the " cradle of tourism " and " world garden ".
瑞士旅遊有如此特色,使其成為世界公認的 “ 旅遊業搖籃 ” 和 “ 世界花園 ”.
The baby slumbered in his cradle.
嬰兒安睡在搖籃中.