cherub

英 ['tʃerəb] 美['tʃɛrəb]

畅通词汇

复数: cherubs;

cherub 小天使

来自希伯来语。

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

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]

(formal)a cherubic face (= looking round and innocent, like a small child's): 胖乎乎、天真无邪的娃娃脸

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.

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.

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.

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.