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crib

/krib/US // krɪb //UK // (krɪb) //

婴儿床,婴儿床位,婴儿床铺,婴儿房

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n.名词 noun
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    • : a child's bed with enclosed sides.
    • : a stall or pen for cattle.
    • : a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
    • : a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
    • : Informal. a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony.plagiarism. a petty theft.
    • : a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
    • : a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
    • : any confined space.
    • : Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
    • : Building Trades, Civil Engineering. any of various cellular frameworks of logs, squared timbers, or steel or concrete objects of similar form assembled in layers at right angles, often filled with earth and stones and used in the construction of foundations, dams, retaining walls, etc.
    • : a barrier projecting part of the way into a river and then upward, acting to reduce the flow of water and as a storage place for logs being floated downstream.
    • : a lining for a well or other shaft.
    • : Slang. one's home; pad.
    • : Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
    • : a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
    • : a wicker basket.
    • : British, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.
v.有主动词 verb
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    cribbed, crib·bing.

    • : Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize.
    • : to confine in or as if in a crib.
    • : to provide with a crib or cribs.
    • : to line with timber or planking.
v.无主动词 verb
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    cribbed, crib·bing.

    • : Informal. to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc.to steal; plagiarize.
    • : to practice cribbing.

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Examples

  • Dan Evans, then the team’s assistant GM, was impressed with her smarts—and the fact that she didn’t get flustered when she entered his office and found a spit cloth on his shoulder and his 3-month-old baby napping in a crib.

  • Set up the base station within 100 feet of the baby’s crib and Bluetooth technology will transmit pulse rate and blood oxygen levels.

  • Gray lifted her daughter, just shy of two at the time, from her crib, telling her the family was going on a fun trip with the dogs.

  • Thinking this was strange, they later put in a video camera and then caught the father and the 19-year-old schoolmate of mine going from crib to crib fondling babies.

  • There’s no assumption of personal privacy in someone else’s crib.

  • Others cheated by taking crib sheets to the blackboard with them, concealing them from Jackson but not from the other students.

  • The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for infants to be put to sleep in a bare crib to prevent SIDS.

  • A bed for people with special needs—essentially a large crib—can cost about $10,000.

  • He is now able to climb out of a regular crib, largely in virtue of his height.

  • After lunch, I put Julia in her crib for a nap, and though she struggled, the excitement of the day took her under.

  • Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.

  • The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

  • A short time after, while Willy was asleep in his crib, his mamma went out to draw some water.

  • Among other things, the rhinoceros was knocked so heavily against the bars of his crib that they began to give way.

  • Hepzebiah never stirred in her crib, and Jehosophat lay dreaming of something very pleasant.