单词 | cradle |
释义 | cradle /'kreidl; 'kredl/ n 1 small, low bed sometimes mounted on rockers, for a newborn baby: (新生婴儿用的) 摇篮; 摇床: from/in the from/ during infancy; 自 (在) 幼小时; from the ~ to the grave, from birth to death. 史生到死。 2 (fig) place where sth is born or begins: (O)发源地; 发祥地: Greece, the ~ of Western culture. 希腊,西另文化的发源地。 3 framework resembling a ~ or which is used like a eg a structure on which a ship is supported while being built or repaired; platform that can be moved up and down an outside wall by means of ropes and pulleys, used by workmen; part of a telephone apparatus on which the receiver rests. 形似摇篮之筐架; (造船或修始时) 承船的托架; (工人甬绳索及滑轮操纵,可沿外墙) 升降的平台; 电话机的听筒支架。 vt [VP6A, 14] place, hold, in or as in a (如) 置于摇篮中: ~ a child in one's arms; 将婴孩抱于譬膀中; ~ the telephone receiver, put it down. 放下电话听筒。 |
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