cemetery
cemetery 英 [ˈsemətri] 美 [ˈseməteri]
n. 墓地；公墓
名词复数:cemeteries
- A cemetery is the land used for burials. If you are 11 and you purchase a plot in a cemetery, you are planning too far ahead.
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- n. 墓地；公墓
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1. Her father was laid in a cemetery.
她父亲安葬在一处公墓。
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2. The body was interred at that cemetery.
尸体下葬在那个公墓。
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3. He rests in a cemetery in the western suburbs of Beijing.
他长眠于北京西郊的一个公墓中。
- cemetery (n.) "place set aside for burial of the dead," late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Medieval Latin cemeterium, Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei-(1) "to lie," also forming words for "bed, couch."
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