| 词汇 | cairn |
| 释义 | cairn noun[ C ] uk /keən/ us /kern/ a small pile of stones made, especially on mountains, to mark a place or as a memorial (= an object to make people remember someone or something)（尤指山上用于标记地点或作为纪念的）堆石标，圆锥形石堆 Gareth Mccormack/Lonely Planet Images/GettyImages Gravestones and monuments bluestone cenotaph colossus epitaph gravestone headstone memorial memorialize monolith monument obelisk rest rest in peaceidiom rip Stonehenge the Eiffel Tower the Statue of Liberty tombstone war memorial You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Hiking & orienteering Examples of cairncairn No trace of them remains today, although a cairn marking the location has been erected. The cairn receives little attention in the literature. There is no doubt that the cairn should be rebuilt today. It now seemed pretty certain that a cairn of some sort had been seen and partly dismantled, but where exactly was it? The cairn is a ruin, but fortunately most of the materials for its re-building are still present. He visited many cairns, hoping to be the first to open them: inevitably, someone had been there before him. This is why we cannot abandon words like 'pot', 'cairn', 'house', 'pit' and 'hearth' in favour of neologisms or morphological types. But here was another cairn to investigate! Whilst excavating the cairns, banks and roundhouses, many of us found that context sheets and scale drawings were often inadequate means of describing the subtleties of construction we were encountering. On the opposite side we have the dint of headstrong resolution and here we have the cairn sagacity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The building of the cairn was a local community initiative. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are mainly mountainous areas, where the foxes, instead of using earths, use cairns, where gassing is not practical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Returning it to the place "from whence it cairn" could not be more clear or precise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The heather is now beginning to grow again on the scorched hillside where the memorial cairn stands. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was cairn, often in the face of considerable provocation. 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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