英汉词典

cherub 基本解释

• n. 小天使；胖娃娃；天真美丽的儿童

cherub 词态变化

cherub 中文词源

来自希伯来语。

cherub 英文词源

cherub

cherub: [OE] Cherub is of Akkadian origin (Akkad was the northern region of ancient Babylonia). Akkadian karūbu meant ‘gracious’. This was borrowed into Hebrew as kerūbh (plural kerūbhīm), which was used in the Old Testament to signify a certain class of winged divine being. It passed into English via Greek kheroúb and Latin cherūb.

cherub (n.)

late 14c. as an order of angels, from Late Latin cherub, from Greek cheroub, from Hebrew kerubh (plural kerubhim) "winged angel," perhaps related to Akkadian karubu "to bless," karibu "one who blesses," an epithet of the bull-colossus. Old English had cerubin, from the Greek plural.

The cherubim, a common feature of ancient Near Eastern mythology, are not to be confused with the round-cheeked darlings of Renaissance iconography. The root of the terms either means "hybrid" or, by an inversion of consonants, "mount," "steed," and they are winged beasts, probably of awesome aspect, on which the sky god of the old Canaanite myths and of the poetry of Psalms goes riding through the air. [Robert Alter, "The Five Books of Moses," 2004, commentary on Gen. iii:24]

cherub 英文释义

1. a sweet innocent baby

2. an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child

cherub 双语例句

1. The skull - and - crossbones crudely carved on the first tombstones was replaced by a winged cherub.

最初粗糙地刻在墓碑上的骷髅与 交叉 的大腿骨图形,已为带翅膀的天使所代替.

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2. It was easy to see why the cartoonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub.

难怪漫画家总是把他画成一个邪恶的小天使.

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3. Tessa's face began to look as contented as a cherub's budding from a cloud.

苔莎的脸开始像云端里初现的小天使那样的快活.

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4. The cherub in the painting is very lovely.

这幅画中的小天使非常可爱.

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5. The height of cherub was ten cubits.

这基路伯高十肘,那基路伯也是如此.

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cherub 实用场景例句

(formal)a cherubic face (= looking round and innocent, like a small child's)

胖乎乎、天真无邪的娃娃脸

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Dame Archer brought the cherub down to master and his face just began to light up.

奥切太太把这小天使抱到大厅给主人看,他脸上才有喜色.

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It was easy to see why the cartoonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub.

难怪漫画家总是把他画成一个邪恶的小天使.

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The cherub in the painting is very lovely.

这幅画中的小天使非常可爱.

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Increasing wrinkles about her mouth and eyes added character to her cherub face.

嘴角和眼角不断增多的皱纹给她那张娃娃脸上增添了个性.

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The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the cherubim were identical in size and shape.

那一个基路伯的两个翅膀也是十肘, 两个基路伯的尺寸,形像都是一样.

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The height of cherub was ten cubits.

这基路伯高十肘,那基路伯也是如此.

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