| 釋義 |
cradle /'kreidl; 'kredl/ n 1 small, low bed sometimes mounted on rockers, for a newborn baby: (新生嬰兒用的) 搖籃; 搖床： from/in the from/ during infancy; 自 (在) 幼小時(shí); from the ~ to the grave, from birth to death. 史生到死。 2 (fig) place where sth is born or begins: (O)發(fā)源地; 發(fā)祥地： Greece, the ~ of Western culture. 希臘，西另文化的發(fā)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. 形似搖籃之筐架; (造船或修始時(shí)) 承船的托架; (工人甬繩索及滑輪操縱，可沿外墻) 升降的平臺(tái); 電話機(jī)的聽筒支架。 vt [VP6A, 14] place, hold, in or as in a (如) 置于搖籃中： ~ a child in one's arms; 將嬰孩抱于譬膀中; ~ the telephone receiver, put it down. 放下電話聽筒。 |