cradle

• n. 搖籃；發源地；發祥地；支船架
• vt. 撫育；把...擱在支架上；把...放在搖籃內

來自PIE*sker, 彎，轉，編織，詞源同ring, crib.

cradle (n.)

"baby's bed," c. 1200, cradel, from Old English cradol "little bed, cot," from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz "basket" (cognates: Old High German kratto, krezzo "basket," German Krätze "basket carried on the back"). From late 14c. as "device for holding or hoisting." Cat's cradle is so called from 1768. Cradle-snatching "amorous pursuit of younger person" is from 1906.

"It's like cradle-snatching to want to marry a girl of sixteen, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, for you can't be much more than twenty one yourself." ["Edith Van Dyne" (L. Frank Baum), "Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad," 1906]

cradle (v.)

c. 1500, from cradle (n.). Related: Cradled; cradling.

1. Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.

馬裏是非洲一些最悠久的文明的發祥地。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.

我把聽筒放回聽筒架上。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.

他把牽引支架固定在船體上。

來自柯林斯例句

4. She rocked the baby to sleep in its cradle.

她搖動搖籃哄嬰兒入睡。

來自《權威詞典》

5. a cradle swathed in draperies and blue ribbon

紮著打褶裝飾織物和藍色緞帶的搖籃

來自《權威詞典》