Cradle

(noun.) a baby bed with sides and rockers.

(noun.) birth of a person; 'he was taught from the cradle never to cry'.

(verb.) run with the stick.

(verb.) hold gently and carefully; 'He cradles the child in his arms'.

(verb.) wash in a cradle; 'cradle gold'.

(verb.) cut grain with a cradle scythe.

(verb.) hold or place in or as if in a cradle; 'He cradled the infant in his arms'.

(verb.) bring up from infancy.

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• Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But all this has been changed by the advent of the reaper, and ere long the grain cradle will hang on the walls of the museum as an ethnological specimen only. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Are you thinking of visiting the cradle of humanity? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The worker was henceforth a worker from the cradle to the grave. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• You begin late, said I, ironically, marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She held her to her bosom; she cradled her in her arms; she rocked her softly, as if lulling a young child to sleep. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A mother cradled in her enfeebled arms the child, last of many, whose glazed eye was about to close for ever. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Thus long, I have cradled my heart in retrospection of past happiness, when hope was. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She studiously shut out all prospect of the future, and cradled her heart in present blessings. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Cradled at last in blissful self-complacency, she took her knitting, and sat down tranquil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Until now, agonizing retrospect, and dreary prospects for the future, had stung me when awake, and cradled me to my repose. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The English tongue we were both taught from our cradles; so you now know the reason we both speak it so well. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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