pyre 的定义
- a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
- such a pile for burning a dead body, especially as part of a funeral rite, as in India.
pyre 近义词
large fire
更多pyre例句
- Crematoriums had to build makeshift pyres to keep up with the demand, and there were reports that the outpouring of ash drifted so far it stained clothes a kilometer away.
- Then there are the pictures of front-line workers performing final rites — lighting pyres and lowering bodies into graves — of those they don’t even know.
- Three months later, those expectations have evaporated in the fumes from smoldering funeral pyres that dot the country’s cities.
- She also champions alternatives like natural burials, funeral pyres, and intimate ceremonies in the home.
- The greatest library ever assembled by the great civilizations of the ancient world—containing a vast ocean of knowledge now lost to us forever—was incinerated on a great pyre of papyrus.
- Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides.
- Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones.
- Daenerys built the funeral pyre for her husband, Khal Drogo, here and hatched three dragons after being abandoned by her khlassar.
- The light was beginning to fade and a funeral pyre was still smoking eerily in front of the temple.
- A cordon of soldiers, placed at a distance from the pyre, kept the inquisitive from drawing too near.
- Fergan and his assistants withdrew to the mob which the file of soldiers was holding back from the pyre.
- The pyre was then lighted with a torch by a relative, who kept his face averted during the act.
- He threw himself upon the pyre, and was consumed like a log of wood, together with the chamber.
- Out of that funeral pyre her feverish thoughts builded a frightful dream.