| 词汇 | coffin |
| 释义 | coffin noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒf.ɪn/ us /ˈkɑː.fɪn/(US alsocasket) a long box in which the body of a dead person is buried or burned棺材;灵柩 Burying, cremating and preserving bodies bier burial bury cist committal cremains cremate cremation cryogenic embalmer exhume lay mummy reburial rebury reinter reinterment sarcophagus taxidermist unburied After the pets are mummified, they are put in a coffin or covered in bronze. Each coffin takes about three months to build, so don’t wait too long to decide! Finally, the bodies were put in coffins and buried in tombs. If it were your funeral, what shape of coffin would you like? Inside the coffin, there was a mummy. Many people came to his funeral for a chance to see his body in the coffin before it was buried. Sixty years later, funerals in Ghana are famous for fantastic coffins. The coffins are now very popular. The people of Tana Toraja place their dead in caves in nearby cliffs or in coffins tied with rope to the side of a mountain. Then, they placed the mummies in coffins, buried them in the ground, and put large rocks on top of them. There are coffins in the shape of food, animals, cars, airplanes, shoes, even ice cream. Things like fine cloth, coffins, and tombs were also expensive. Usually the coffins show something about the personality or the job of the person to be buried. A princess falls into a deep sleep, and is placed by a magician in a glass coffin. Papa stood at the head of the coffin. The cells were more like coffins than anything else—they were just six feet by three and contained no furniture of any kind. The coffin taken out of the hearse was lowered into the grave. The coffin was placed on the side of the mountain, and each of them watched it by turns, so that it was never left alone. coffin | American Dictionarycoffin noun[ C ] us/ˈkɔ·fən, ˈkɑf·ən/ a long box used to bury or cremate (= burn) a dead person Examples of coffincoffin Some of the people who were there went up to the coffin quite spontaneously. This metal has been associated with interment since ancient times and used for coffins and coffin linings. It is likely that a single parish coffin was used to transport bodies, with the pauper simply dropped out of the end into the grave. What can be read or reconstructed of the texts on the cross is perfectly in accordance with its identification as a coffin cross. Then we went out under the roof outside and onto the lawns, and the coffin was still inside the crematorium. Increased use of lead-lined coffins added to the cost. Two years earlier he had his tombstone and coffin made, and he kept them in a barn close to his home. The lost text may have contained the name(s) of one or more people buried, or deposited, in the coffin. Surely this is the last nail in the coffin of the 'posthumous dialogue'. The fisherman is entirely possessed by his grief, and he can neither look at his son's coffin nor look away from it. By contrast, the working class had little need for the undertaker's services, except to provide a coffin and, possibly, transportation. The 1912 legal reform was the final nail in the coffin. Coffin's biography is helpful in providing an ordered approach to a figure who remains controversial. So let us have some symbolism today as well, with another coffin in the plenary. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English One announcement of redundancies follows another like nails being driven into a coffin. 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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