casket
casket 英 [ˈkɑ:skɪt] 美 [ˈkæskɪt]
n. 棺材；骨灰盒；小箱 vt. 把……装进小箱；入殓
名词复数:caskets
- A casket is a coffin, or a box in which the body of a dead person is buried. Some funeral traditions include a chance for mourners to see the deceased in the casket before burial.
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- n. 棺材；骨灰盒；小箱
- vt. 把……装进小箱；入殓
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1. Now there’s no casket, just a gold urn on a small table.
这次没有棺材了。 只有一个摆在小桌上的金色骨灰盒。
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2. Along with the others I go past the casket. Then I move out onto the front steps and into the afternoon light.
我跟着人流从棺材前走过，然后来到前门外面的台阶上，午后的阳光直射下来。
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3. This would mean your relatives will choose a wood casket, no embalming will be involved and you will be buried a bit closer to the surface.
这将意味着你的亲属会选择一个木制棺材，不含防腐香料，而且你也会被埋得略接近于地层表面。
- casket (n.) mid-15c., "small box for jewels, etc.," possibly a diminutive of English cask with -et, or from a corruption of Middle French casset "a casket, a chest" (see cassette). Also a publisher's name for a collection of selected literary or musical pieces (1828). Meaning "coffin" (especially an expensive one) is American English, probably euphemistic, attested by 1832.
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