| 词汇 | gravestone |
| 释义 | gravestone noun[ C ] uk /ˈɡreɪv.stəʊn/ us /ˈɡreɪv.stoʊn/ a stone that shows where a dead person is buried, usually with the name and the years of birth and death of that person written on it墓碑 Synonym tombstone Compare headstone See also stonenoun(ROCK) digitalhallway/E+/GettyImages Gravestones and monuments bluestone cairn cenotaph colossus epitaph headstone memorial memorialize monolith monument obelisk rest rest in peaceidiom rip Stonehenge the Eiffel Tower the Statue of Liberty tombstone war memorial gravestone | American Dictionarygravestone noun[ C ] us/ˈɡreɪvˌstoʊn/ a tombstone Examples of gravestonegravestone Generally, the wooden crosses were of a temporary nature, which would be replaced the following season by gravestones. As he says, 'many a heather-covered hillside is a gravestone to a once awe-inspiring volcano'. The tomb, in the shape of a triple-necked gourd, has signs of fresh paint on its gravestone. We wanted to buy him a gravestone for his birthday, but we couldn't afford it. Granites in gravestones, xenoliths in kerbstones, ballast walls and gastropod mileposts, unconformities in brickwork and bedding in 'pulhamite'; the examples are diverse and diverting. Louie's work covers a wider time-span and makes use of a range of ethnographic methods involving press reports, official documents, and gravestones. A gravestone is "a sign whose silent presence marks an absence" (p. 1), thus incorporating the idea of the absent as an inherent component of mobility. Three of the chapters, on local xenophobia, rural marriage patterns, and gravestones and local attachment, will be familiar to readers, having had previous lives as journal articles. Secondly, we would be adding just one other sanction in respect of the disposal of the graves, the remains, the gravestones and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are they going to destroy the gravestones erected by comrades of the men who have fallen? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was convicted and fined one hundred gravestones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The matter of a gravestone is a matter to be considered by the courts dealing with the case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why do the new gravestones seem to be failing and the old ones not? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So local authorities can make such rules as they wish about the size and appearance of gravestones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was taken to see my wife's ancestral burial ground where all the gravestones instead of having crosses on have skull and crossbones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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