She made a cradle from rushes. She smeared the outside with tar to make it waterproof.

她用灯芯草做了一个摇篮，把焦油涂在外面以使它防水。

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As a clergyman's son he'd imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.

作为牧师之子，他从襁褓时就耳濡目染并接受了一套神秘信仰。

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"Nothing but this," said the boy, "my mother has a cottage on your land--they stole me from the cradle."

“只有这个，”男孩说，“我妈妈在你的土地上有一幢小别墅——他们把我从摇篮里偷走了。”

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For example, around nineteen twelve he finished a nine-book series called "From the Cradle to the Grave."

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Perhaps people feel little need for CSR when the government cares for them from cradle to grave.

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Nobody just hops out of the cradle or graduates from nursery school and sits down and writes War and Peace.

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Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, speaks frequently of a future in which labor serves its constituents from cradle to grave.

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