swaddle
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英 ['sw?d(?)l]
美['swɑdl]
- vt. 用襁褓包；束縛
- n. 襁褓
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?swaddles;過去式:?swaddled;過去分詞:?swaddled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swaddling;
中文詞源
swaddle 包裹，緊裹
來自古英語 swathian,包裹，裹緊，詞源同 swathe,帶子，長條布。-le, 表反復(fù)。字母 d,th 音 變，如 burden 來自古英語 byrthen.
英文詞源
- swaddle (v.)
- "bind with long strips of cloth," late 15c. alteration of Middle English swathlen (c. 1200), probably a frequentative form of Old English swatian (see swathe). Related: Swaddled; swaddling. Phrase swaddling clothes is from Coverdale (1535) translation of Luke ii:7.
Young children ... are still bandaged in this manner in many parts of Europe to prevent them from using their limbs freely, owing to a fancy that those who are left free in infancy become deformed. [Century Dictionary, 1891]
Wyclif uses swathing-clothes (late 14c.).
雙語例句
- 1. Swaddle your newborn baby so that she feels secure.
- 把你剛出生的孩子用襁褓包裹住，這樣她會有安全感。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Concentric nothingnesses swaddle my heart, a bell that never rings.
- 一層層同心的虛無是我心的襁褓, 裹著一口永不敲響的鐘.
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