及物动词

名词

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

2. (电话机的)听筒架
The cradle is the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests while it is not being used.

3. 支架;护架
A cradle is a frame which supports or protects something.

4. 发源地;发祥地
A place that is referred to as the cradle of something is the place where it began.

5. 轻轻抱着(或捧着)
If you cradle someone or something in your arms or hands, you hold them carefully and gently.

6. 一生;一世;从生到死
If something affects you from the cradle to the grave, it affects you throughout your life.

1. a baby bed with sides and rockers

2. a trough that can be rocked back and forth
used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold

Synonym: rocker

3. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

e.g. the birthplace of civilization

Synonym: birthplaceplace of originprovenanceprovenience

4. birth of a person

e.g. he was taught from the cradle never to cry