cradling的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT搖籃

A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side.

N-COUNT(電話機的)聽筒架

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。

N-COUNT支架;護架

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。

N-COUNT發源地;發祥地

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

VERB輕輕抱著(或捧著)

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。

PHRASE一生;一世;從生到死

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。