cradle
英 ['kreɪd(ə)l]
美['kredl]
- 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
英英释意
- 1. a baby bed with sides and rockers
- 2. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;
- "the birthplace of civilization"
- 3. birth of a person;
- "he was taught from the cradle never to cry"
- 4. a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold