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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

cradle to grave

/kreyd-l-tuh-greyv/US // ˈkreɪd l təˈgreɪv //

摇篮到坟墓,从摇篮到坟墓,摇篮至坟墓,从摇篮到墓地

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of healthcare.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlifetime
Synonyms
career职业生涯,职业,事业,职业发展life生活,生命,寿命,人生period时间continuance延续性,延续,继续,继续执行course课程,历程,进程,航线days天,天数,日,天天endurance耐力,耐久性,耐性,耐心existence存在,存在的,存在感,存在的问题time时间,时代,时期,时all one's born days寿终正寝,生生不息life span寿命,寿命长短,寿限,寿命长natural life自然生活,自然生命,自然的生活,自然的生命

Examples

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

  • Well, the numbers tell us so, as do all of our day-to-day interactions, just as the president said.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • The water suggested the fear that he must be nearing the open sea, and he became supernaturally grave.

  • Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.

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