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cherub

/cher-uhb/US // ˈtʃɛr əb //UK // (ˈtʃɛrəb) //

小天使,珍宝,珍珠,珍爱生命

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cher·ubs for 3, 4; cher·u·bim [cher-uh-bim, -yoo-bim] /ˈtʃɛr ə bɪm, -yʊ bɪm/ for 1, 2.

    • : a celestial being. Genesis 3:24; Ezekiel 1, 10.
    • : Theology. a member of the second order of angels, often represented as a beautiful rosy-cheeked child with wings.
    • : a beautiful or innocent person, especially a child.
    • : a person, especially a child, with a sweet, chubby, innocent face.

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Examples

  • Adriana Bottino-Poage is 6 years old, with cherub cheeks and curls that bounce when she laughs.

  • Nearby, plump kidneys churn out requests for water and salt—twin cherubs of the torso.

  • The haul came from 10 pieces that mostly feature winged cherubs called “war nymphs,” some of which sold thousands of copies.

  • Miley Cyrus morphed from cherub-faced Disney tween into raunchy twerker.

  • The little 17-year-old Russian cherub lutzed and salchowed like she was born for that expressed purpose.

  • With fair skin boosting the expressiveness of her big blue eyes, Kazan resembles a slightly more cherub-faced Jennifer Connelly.

  • The film opened with two African cherub babies playing in the dirt.

  • The child actress, now 15, has gone from a dimpled cherub to an undead evildoer in New Moon.

  • Therefore God alone is responsible for the acts the man performs in obedience to the cherub's orders.

  • So I want you to fit up this roof of the kitchen exactly in the way you arranged the garden on the roof at Cherub Court.

  • A decided case of 'up aloft': he looks quite the cherub, does he not?

  • But from the limit whence the cherub continueth not the imp began.

  • And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house.

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