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crematorium

/kree-muh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-, krem-uh-/US // ˌkri məˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌkrɛm ə- //UK // (ˌkrɛməˈtɔːrɪəm) //

火葬场,火葬場,火化场,焚烧场

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cre·ma·to·ri·ums, cre·ma·to·ri·a [kree-muh-tawr-ee-uh, -tohr-]. /ˌkri məˈtɔr i ə, -ˈtoʊr-/.

    • : a crematory.

Examples

  • We do know that in recent weeks funeral homes and crematoriums across the country have been overwhelmed.

  • The sense was that several deaths were not being attributed to Covid-19, while the country’s crematoriums and makeshift riverside graveyards revealed a ghastly side of India’s Covid crisis.

  • Media reports described medical supplies running low and ambulances becoming makeshift morgues, lining up outside crematoriums.

  • For the second time in three days, members of the family returned to the crematorium.

  • It was the last week of April, when a coronavirus surge was devastating Delhi, with overwhelmed hospitals running out of oxygen, and crematoriums running out of space.

  • “The most frustrating part of this crematorium here is the carelessness of the Ebola team,” says Reeves.

  • Nobody can assure anybody and some of these authorities at the crematorium have very little background in science.

  • In April 1947, the former kommandant was hung on the gallows next to the old crematorium in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • He spoke of burying Robinson and going straight back to work from the crematorium.

  • Before the body was sent to the crematorium, Shilling and Crump filled the casket with animal bones, meat, and a mannequin.

  • For many years past that which has just been alluded to has ceased to exist, a crematorium having taken its place.

  • Place in a galvanised iron pail, provided with a lid, ready for transport to the crematorium.

  • It was the "Nimtolla Burning-Chat," or crematorium, where the bodies of the natives are burnt.

  • Page 48 One of the things we in the West might imitate with advantage is the village crematorium.

  • But even if the moxa should fail, the attention of the boys could always be drawn to the crematorium.