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churchyard

/church-yahrd/US // ˈtʃɜrtʃˌyɑrd //UK // (ˈtʃɜːtʃˌjɑːd) //

教堂墓地,教堂庭院,教堂院落,教堂花园

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the yard or ground adjoining a church, often used as a graveyard.

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Examples

  • A chronicler in Rochester, Kent, wrote that parents brought their children’s corpses to mass churchyard graves upon their own shoulders because no one could be found to cart away bodies.

  • It’s not hard to imagine a young Hugh Grant rushing through the churchyard in a morning suit and mumbling apologies for being late again.

  • Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.

  • I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard.

  • As I turned, my listless glance included the man below in the churchyard.

  • In the Chartist riots of 1839, the people tore up the railings round the churchyard to use as pikes.

  • The churchyard was partly surrounded by houses, and in 1781 "iron pallisadoes" were affixed to the wall.

  • In 1837 the churchyard had some pleasant walks along the sides, bounded by a low wooden fence, and skirted with trees.

  • Inscription copied, Nov. 21, 1833, from a tombstone to a fisherman in Bathford churchyard.

  • He even thought of silk and St. Paul's Churchyard and the faces of his partners in business.