cradle是什么意思

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

中文词源

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.

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。