cradle

• n. 摇篮；发源地；发祥地；支船架
• vt. 抚育；把...搁在支架上；把...放在摇篮内

来自PIE*sker, 弯，转，编织，词源同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.

马里是非洲一些最悠久的文明的发祥地。

来自柯林斯例句

2. I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.

我把听筒放回听筒架上。

来自柯林斯例句

3. He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.

他把牵引支架固定在船体上。

来自柯林斯例句

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

她摇动摇篮哄婴儿入睡。

来自《权威词典》

5. a cradle swathed in draperies and blue ribbon

扎着打褶装饰织物和蓝色缎带的摇篮

来自《权威词典》