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gravestone

/greyv-stohn/US // ˈgreɪvˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈɡreɪvˌstəʊn) //

墓碑,墓石,墓地,坟墓

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.

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Examples

  • Looking back, I am so grateful for the time I had not knowing that a gravestone is the closest we will ever get to Bryan.

  • Elizabeth interferes, in everything from the baby’s gravestone to the lawsuit she pushes forward in order to punish Eva.

  • Also, Killer Blues did not make a gravestone for Gatemouth Brown.

  • He kneeled by the gravestone of Corporal James Cavaco and placed a rock on top of it.

  • But within a year he came up with his best-ever idea—encapsulated in an equation that he said he wanted on his gravestone.

  • His gravestone, which read "Ich hab's gewagt," or "I have dared," was taken down, according to Germany's Spiegel Online.

  • Soon the gravestone disappeared under all the floral tributes.

  • I copied it myself from a gravestone in the churchyard of the village of Wingfield, Suffolk.

  • As he entered the suburb, he drew up by the statuary of whom he had purchased his mother's gravestone.

  • A marriage there was—God yet will proclaim the right—and the name of Beaufort shall be yet placed on my mother's gravestone.

  • Even the gravestone of Catherine, half in moonlight, half in shadow, appeared to him to wear a smile.

  • This was the first time I had been struck by an allegorical gravestone of a pronounced character.