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crematory

/kree-muh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, krem-uh-/US // ˈkri məˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈkrɛm ə- //UK // (ˈkrɛmətərɪ, -trɪ) //

火葬场,焚尸炉,火葬場,焚烧场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cre·ma·to·ries.

    • : a place, as a funeral establishment, at which cremation is done.
    • : a furnace for cremating.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to cremation.

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Examples

  • I mean, I was blown away by the fact that it was really hard for you to get a job in a crematory.

  • So it wasn’t like I went into it as some sort of stunt book where I was like, “I will work at a crematory for a year and expose what’s going on behind the scenes.”

  • You have this scene which made me want to close the book just for a second and take a step back where you get new floors in your crematory machine.

  • The book chronicles her first few years working in the funeral industry, and, in particular, working at a crematory in Oakland, California.

  • At that point, he gets put on the schedule, and he gets picked up by me, the crematory operator, and he goes into the cremation machine.

  • They wanted “to make it weigh enough that the crematory employees would not become suspicious,” says Goorvitch.

  • There was no longer any one left to gather up the dead; the crematory fire on the Acropolis had gone out.

  • She could get the horses out, perhaps, before the log walls became their crematory.

  • Solid refuse should be promptly burned, either in the kitchen fire or in an improvised crematory.

  • He had omitted to investigate the length of time required to heat the crematory.

  • It is then thoroughly mixed with dry ashes from the crematory, and afterwards covered with either grain or grass.