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tombstone

/toom-stohn/US // ˈtumˌstoʊn //UK // (ˈtuːmˌstəʊn) //

墓碑,墓石,墓志铭,墓地

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.

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Examples

  • Arnuby carries a picture of his brother’s tombstone and his death certificate, which lists strangulation as the cause.

  • “Sacks are a QB stat” could be on my tombstone, and yet I don’t listen to myself.

  • “A lot of the tombstones were toppled and broken,” said Grace, describing the former state of the cemetery.

  • Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.

  • “What I would really like to put on my tombstone is that I was part of my time,” he says.

  • “The NTC pretends to govern, but it doesn't have any real power in the interior,” Tombstone tells him.

  • The problem gets occasional publicity when a rock star steps in and buys a tombstone for a blues great.

  • Or you could have a tombstone that reads “Here does not lie Ann Patchett.”

  • For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.

  • Inscription copied, Nov. 21, 1833, from a tombstone to a fisherman in Bathford churchyard.

  • Only he had carved on the Girl's tombstone the last verse of the Song of the Girl, which stands at the head of this story.

  • His tombstone in the churchyard consists of an anvil and hammer, wrought in stone.

  • He supported her and himself against the tombstone, till her faint breathings informed him she revived.