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epitaph

/ep-i-taf, -tahf/US // ˈɛp ɪˌtæf, -ˌtɑf //UK // (ˈɛpɪˌtɑːf, -ˌtæf) //

墓志铭,墓铭,墓记,墓碑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
    • : a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to commemorate in or with an epitaph.

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Examples

  • The future of movies is unwritten—but let’s get through this harvest, a rich one, before we chisel the epitaph.

  • Still, infiltration of militants from Pakistan has not stopped completely, and experts point out it’s too early to write the epitaph of Kashmir’s militancy — at least 26 armed fighters have entered Kashmir this year.

  • When he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”

  • In the unlikely event McConnell loses his reelection bid, I already know the title for his political epitaph: Shameless.

  • Weil believes they are a fitting epitaph to a man often described as the most influential British publisher of his generation.

  • So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph.

  • A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."

  • Here—stop and look—is the epitaph of one, a considerable fellow in his day, a barrister of the Middle Temple.

  • He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.

  • The following epitaph given by Maitland commemorates a martyrdom of this reign.

  • While digging here in 1856, De Rossi found the important epitaph of Eusebius before given.

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