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entombment

/en-toom/US // ɛnˈtum //UK // (ɪnˈtuːm) //

埋葬,墓葬,埋藏,墓穴

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
    • : to serve as a tomb for: Florentine churches entomb many great men.

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Examples

  • Few people realize that entombed rivers still flow invisibly below cities such as New York, London, and Paris.

  • Such ancient microbes exist entombed in salt crystals and at the bottom of the ocean, in oxygen-deficient, hydrogen sulphide-rich environments.

  • Many burrow-dwelling creatures are “entombed” by fast-rising crude from underground, making it impossible to ever document their loss, she said.

  • Beauty does not matter, for on Good Friday the entombment 279 holds thousands silent before it.

  • The Entombment followed, the Madonna in black lamenting and weeping.

  • The chief treasure left—the Entombment, by Titian—is perhaps a superior duplicate of the one in the Louvre.

  • Evidence of the comparatively-recent entombment of these remains exists, however, of another character.

  • In the version given by Mr. Whitley Stokes there is no mention of Odran's grave having been uncovered after his entombment.