cradle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 摇篮; 策源地; 支船架; vt. 把…放在摇篮里，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One slipper was nowhere to be found; the other had been laid hold of by an urchin, and off he ran with it; he thought it would do capitally for a cradle when he some day or other should have children himself.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No cradle is so comfortable as the long, rocking swell of the Pacific.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnan-imously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours to-gether.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'As if this poor little innocent in its cradle had ever done any harmto you or anybody else, you jealous thing!'
-- You, who from his cradle reared him to be what he was, andstunted what he should have been!Are you rewarded, now, foryour years of trouble'?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Late as the Dutch clock showed it to be, the poor woman was still hard at work at an ironing-table; a young child lay sleeping in a cradle near the fire; and another, a sturdy boy of two or three years old, very wide awake, with a very tight night-cap on his head, and a night-gown very much too small for him on his body, was sitting bolt upright in a clothes-basket, staring over the rim with his great round eyes, and looking as if he had thoroughly made up his mind never to go to sleep any more; which, as he had already declined to take his natural rest and had been brought out of bed in consequence, opened a cheerful prospect for his relations and friends.
-- So he rocked the cradle with his foot; made a face at the rebel in the clothes-basket, which put him in high good-humour directly; and stoutly determined to be talkative and make himself agreeable.
-- The baby in the cradle woke up and cried; the boy in the clothes-basket fell over on his back with the basket upon him, and was seen no more; the mother wept louder yet and rocked faster; but Kit, insensible to all the din and tumult, remained in a state of utter stupefaction.
-- To this, Kit's mother replied, that certainly it was quite true, and quite right, and quite proper, and Heaven forbid that she should shrink, or have cause to shrink, from any inquiry into her character or that of her son, who was a very good son though she was his mother, in which respect, she was bold to say, he took after his father, who was not only a good son to his mother, but the best of husbands and the best of fathers besides, which Kit could and would corroborate she knew, and so would little Jacob and the baby likewise if they were old enough, which unfortunately they were not, though as they didn't know what a loss they had had, perhaps it was a great deal better that they should be as young as they were; and so Kit's mother wound up a long story by wiping her eyes with her apron, and patting little Jacob's head, who was rocking the cradle and staring with all his might at the strange lady and gentleman.
-- The good woman was so much alarmed by the sudden apparition of this unknown piece of ugliness, that she hastily caught the baby from its cradle and retreated into the furthest corner of the room; while little Jacob, sitting upon his stool with his hands on his knees, looked full at him in a species of fascination, roaring lustily all the time.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased withthemselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration.
-- Shewas seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat'sand everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Be that as it may, he had directed Mrs. Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There was absolutely nowhere to sit down, nowhere, a man just above sang 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' the whole way; he was blind and he had a small organ, one of those portable organs, and he expected money; so you can imagine what that was like; there came a constant smell of luncheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the journey took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, literally for miles, dreadful boys ran with us on the shore, in that awful Thames mud, going in up to the waist they had their trousers turned back, and they went up to their hips in that indescribable Thames mud, their faces always turned to us, and screaming, exactly like carrion creatures, screaming ''Ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir, 'ere y'are sir,' exactly like some foul carrion objects, perfectly obscene; and paterfamilias on board, laughing when the boys went right down in that awful mud, occasionally throwing them a ha'penny.
-- It was snow everywhere, a white, perfect cradle of snow, new and frozen, sweeping up on either side, black crags, and white sweeps of silver towards the blue pale heavens.
-- Straight in front ran the cradle of silent snow, between the great slopes that were fringed with a little roughness of pine-trees, like hair, round the base.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby's cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats.
-- Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible.'
-- You have dealt so wisely with me, father, from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What secular want could the million or so of human beings whose daily labour, six days in the week, lay among these Arcadian objects, from the sweet sameness of which they had no escape between the cradle and the grave what secular want could they possibly have upon their seventh day?
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would like the relics of great people better, for I've seen her Napoleon's cocked hat and gray coat, his baby's cradle and his old toothbrush, also Marie Antoi-nette's little shoe, the ring of Saint Denis, Charlemagne's sword, and many other interesting things.
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