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Cradle German Cradle Snatching 10539.Cradle 英 Kreɪd(ə)L]美 Kredl 释义

正面 10539.cradle
英 ['kreɪd(ə)l]美 ['kredl]

背面
释义:
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
例句:
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。

1、re- "back" + cept- + -ion + -ist.2、字面含义:take back.
cradle 摇篮来自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."

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