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cradle

/ˈkɹeɪdəl/ 动词 C2

中文: 轻轻抱着、摇篮般托着

  1. To contain in or as if in a cradle. (transitive)
  2. To rock (a baby to sleep). (transitive)
  3. To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively. (transitive) · cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
  4. To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
  5. To nurse or train in infancy.
  6. To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
  7. To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
  8. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

He/she/it cradles · 过去式 cradled · 过去分词 cradled · -ing形式 cradling

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cradle
He/she/it
cradles
过去式
cradled
过去分词
cradled
-ing形式
cradling

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After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
《The Wonderful Wizard of Oz》,第4页 · B2
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第2页 · C1
It was at this period I learned that the destiny which seemed subservient to every wish formed by Napoleon, had bestowed on him a son, named king of Rome even in his cradle.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第143页 · C1
She dressed her huge husband in baby clothes and pushed him into a giant wooden cradle.
《Finn McCool and the Giant》,第1页 · B1

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