mausoleum
mausoleum 英 [ˌmɔ:səˈli:əm] 美 [ˌmɔsəˈliəm, -zə-]
n. 陵墓；阴森森的大厦
名词复数:mausoleums
- A mausoleum is a building that contains a tomb or tombs. The Taj Mahal, built by Shah Jahan as a monument to his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, is the world's most famous mausoleum.
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- n. 陵墓；阴森森的大厦
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1. Guards of Lenin’s mausoleum in felt boots with galoshes.
列宁陵墓的守卫们，穿着毡靴的胶套鞋
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2. Owing to the small size of the mausoleum chapel, the mosaics do not create the impression of vain, cold pomp.
由于陵墓教堂规模过小，这些马赛克没给人产生一种空虚、冷清的浮华印象。
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3. Only 400 visitors will be let in each night, and parking restrictions will be imposed around the marble mausoleum.
每晚只有400名游客有机会入内参观，大理石陵墓周围还将强制执行停车管制。
- mausoleum (n.) "magnificent tomb," 1540s, from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian satrap who made himself king of Caria. It was built by his wife (and sister), Artemisia. Counted among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages. General sense of "any stately burial-place" is from c. 1600.
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