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mausoleum

/maw-suh-lee-uhm, -zuh-/US // ˌmɔ səˈli əm, -zə- //UK // (ˌmɔːsəˈlɪəm) //

陵墓,陵园,纪念堂,纪念馆

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n.名词 noun
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    plural mau·so·le·ums, mau·so·le·a [maw-suh-lee-uh, -zuh-]. /ˌmɔ səˈli ə, -zə-/.

    • : a stately and magnificent tomb.
    • : a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
    • : a large, gloomy, depressing building, room, or the like.
    • : the tomb erected at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor in 350? b.c.

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Examples

  • We arrived at the cemetery, and five minutes before the service was to start, an announcement was made that it would be held inside the mausoleum.

  • My parents are building a mausoleum for themselves in my childhood home.

  • During the restoration process, volunteers discovered plaques documenting a list of the dead contained within the mausoleum.

  • Eagle Hill Cemetery: A cemetery in Collinsport, Maine (see also: Collinsport), which contains the Collins Family Mausoleum.

  • Alone with the “mausoleum of sounds” that is her memory she must record her past “before it becomes tinnitus and is lost.”

  • She has written about the Park Avenue she grew up on in the '70s: “Too mineral, too grey, too mausoleum-like.”

  • But within a year of her marriage the Princess died in child-birth, and was buried in a mausoleum within the park.

  • A simple mausoleum, about thirty feet square, and a few small private monuments, were all that was to be seen.

  • This probably explains its vicinity to the stately mausoleum of Ccilia Metella.

  • The mausoleum of the Emperor Humaione, very much in the same style as the mosque, was commenced by this monarch himself.

  • At the end of the garden, opposite the mausoleum, stands a small palace, principally belonging to the King of Lucknau.