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cemetery

/sem-i-ter-ee/US // ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i //UK // (ˈsɛmɪtrɪ) //

墓园,墓地,坟场,坟地

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cem·e·ter·ies.

    • : an area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns, especially one that is not a churchyard; burial ground; graveyard.

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Examples

  • “Sometimes, I just want to grab people and shake them awake,” said Robbins, as he walked up the well-worn cemetery path on a recent Friday to the shiny bronze marker bearing his son’s name.

  • The Safe and Quiet Skies Act would prohibit tours over national parks, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, military installations, and cemeteries.

  • The site did serve as a cemetery between around 5,000 and 4,400 years ago.

  • Usually, burial in a Jewish cemetery follows immediately upon a Jewish funeral, individual mourners reverently accompanying the casket to wherever the cemetery is located.

  • Hospitals and cemeteries struggled to keep up, and mass graves were dug to bury the dead.

  • The procession continued on to the Cypress Hill Cemetery, where Ramos was buried the week before.

  • The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

  • Now open a cemetery" or "Do you make doctors work as nurses?

  • “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery,” he said.

  • He is known for bragging about how he has “filled a whole cemetery.”

  • His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.

  • The first interment in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise; it was laid out and prepared by order of Bonaparte.

  • Two days later Ollie Dangerfield was laid away under the palms and umbrella-trees in the Phœnix cemetery.

  • In part of an ancient arenarium converted into a cemetery in the Catacomb of St. Priscilla similar constructions may be seen.

  • Thus Callixtus became the syndic of the public cemetery of the church, which still bears his name.