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crypt

/kript/US // krɪpt //UK // (krɪpt) //

地穴,墓穴,地窖,墓室

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a subterranean chamber or vault, especially one beneath the main floor of a church, used as a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc.
    • : Anatomy. a slender pit or recess; a small glandular cavity.

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Examples

  • After the crypt was cleared, another officer made it to the Capitol rotunda.

  • One officer said the crypt looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie, trash strewn everywhere, the air thick with smoke.

  • It faces what had been a holding crypt, where caskets were stored temporarily during the winter when the frozen ground was too hard to turn over.

  • The restored stone crypt and the new columbarium have 645 niches.

  • The long crypt tunnels into a hillside, only visible by a smattering of skylights peeking up between graves.

  • Because of the German clothing, they were turned over to the Germans, who interred them in a crypt in France.

  • The “home of the NRA gun collection” was as quiet as a crypt.

  • But the Vatican has made one thing clear: De Pedis will not be reburied in the church crypt.

  • In the far corners of the crypt were dozens of boxes of human remains.

  • A large recess in the wall next to the Papal Crypt is thought to have held her sarcophagus.

  • The first of these areas which we reach on entering the vineyard is that known as the crypt of St. Lucina.

  • The names of many Ccilii and other noble Roman families are also found on epitaphs in this crypt.

  • The same purpose is effected within the crypt by balustrades, and even by parallel galleries to the same chamber.

  • Then about twenty monks, with their heads buried in immense hoods, came out of the crypt, and stationed themselves in the nave.