graveyard
英 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːd]
美 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːrd]
n. 墓地，坟场(常在教堂附近); 垃圾场; 废物堆积处; 收容所
复数：graveyards
Collins.1 / BNC.9850 / COCA.9979
牛津词典
noun
- 墓地，坟场（常在教堂附近）
an area of land, often near a church, where people are buried - 垃圾场；废物堆积处；收容所
a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT （有时指教堂边的）墓地，坟场
Agraveyardis an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.- They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
- They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
- N-COUNT 废物堆积处；垃圾场
If you call a place agraveyard ofparticular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.- This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
这里一度是全球最大的港口，现在堆满了锈迹斑斑的吊车。
- This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
- N-COUNT 令人屡遭失败的事;失意之地
If you call an event or place thegraveyard forparticular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.- Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。
- Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
英英释义
noun
- a tract of land used for burials
双语例句
- An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince.
那是个大象的墓穴，可不是一个小王子可以去的地方。 - No longer are graveyard visitors limited to letters and numbers etched into tombstones.
去墓地的人可以接触到的再也不仅仅是刻在碑石的字母和数字了。 - One night in the graveyard he and Huck Finn see three men.
一天晚上在坟场他和费恩、贝琪撒切尔看到了三个男人。 - Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。 - I thought I'd show you the playground of the rich, the graveyard of wealth.
我准备带你看富贵游乐场，就是财富的墓地。 - I dare you to spend the night in the graveyard.
看你是否有种在墓地过夜。 - You work the graveyard shift?
你是做夜班的？ - Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
总是应该对墓地传来的毛骨悚然的音乐进行严密调查。 - You mean Grandpa Jerry from the graveyard?
你说的是躺在墓地里的杰里爷爷吗？ - And then, you must go to a graveyard at midnight.
然后你要在半夜去到坟地里。