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coffin

/kaw-fin, kof-in/US // ˈkɔ fɪn, ˈkɒf ɪn //UK // (ˈkɒfɪn) //

棺材,棺木,棺椁,棺材箱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.
    • : the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.
    • : Printing. the bed of a platen press.the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.

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Examples

  • What you worry about are the combination of stressors, where, because of pollution, something like a big storm might come back and be the final nail in the coffin.

  • Low-income earners have resorted to so-called coffin homes that are essentially just a bed space.

  • “Actions such as the closure of so many businesses could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for our struggling restaurants and their workers,” she said.

  • She punished herself daily by scrolling to a photo she’d taken of JaMarcus in his coffin.

  • Erin Palmer, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission representative in Northwest Washington, is famous for throwing an annual Halloween bash with trick coffins, life-size skeletons and an outdoor fire pit billowing fake green smoke.

  • The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.

  • But on Tuesday, we saw another nail hammered into the already pretty tightly nailed down coffin of the two-state solution.

  • The report detailed such techniques as "rectal rehydration" and the use of coffin-size confinement boxes.

  • In addition, several detainees were led to believe they would die in custody, with one told he would leave in a coffin-shaped box.

  • Well, the dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin, and the prince had it carried to his castle.

  • Cleopatra's coffin, head of the Theban ram, and other Egyptian curiosities, arrived in England.

  • She groaned aloud, and her tears flowed faster: Alessandro was making the baby's coffin.

  • By this time the bent figure sitting in the rocking-chair, near the coffin began to show signs of life and whimper a little.

  • The corpse was lying in a narrow coffin, upon a low bier, both of which were covered with a white pall.

  • The humidity of the earth had rusted the screws, and it was not without some difficulty that the coffin was opened.