cherub

英 ['t?er?b] 美['t??r?b]

暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?cherubs;

cherub 小天使

來自希伯來語。

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]

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髏與交叉的大腿骨圖形,已為帶翅膀的天使所代替.

2. It was easy to see why the cartoonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub.: 難怪漫畫家總是把他畫成一個邪惡的小天使.

3. Tessa's face began to look as contented as a cherub's budding from a cloud.: 苔莎的臉開始像云端里初現(xiàn)的小天使那樣的快活.