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词汇 burial-at-sea
释义

burial at sea


idiom
a ceremony in which the body of a person who has died on a ship is put into the sea海葬(仪式)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Burying, cremating and preserving bodies
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cist
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cremains
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cryogenic
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lay
mummy
reburial
rebury
reinter
reinterment
sarcophagus
taxidermist
unburied
Examples from literature

It was soon lowered amid appropriate music, which ended the burial at sea. 
Shipwreck or burial at sea she deduced from the fact of there being no grave in the cemetery. 
The death by accident of a sailor, and his strange burial at sea, served only for a brief time to arrest a happiness made complete by each other's voice and presence. 
There is something peculiarly melancholy and impressive in a burial at sea: there is here no coffin or hearse, procession or tolling bell,—nothing that gradually prepares us for the final separation. 
We lived through those days and were fortunate enough not to have a burial at sea. 

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