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词汇 epitaph
释义 epitaph
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈep.ɪ.tɑːf/ us /ˈep.ə.tæf/
a short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, especially one written on their gravestone悼文;悼亡诗;(尤指)墓志铭
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epitaph | American Dictionary


epitaph
noun[ C ]
us/ˈep·ɪˌtæf/
a short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, esp. one written on a tombstone (= the stone over the place where someone is buried)

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Several epitaphs from the past have been preserved in the cathedral.
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There are tombstones and epitaphs built into the church walls and the wall around the church and the cemetery.
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Most are constructed in marble and are decorated with reliefs and epitaphs showing the names and professions of the deceased and extolling their good deeds.
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He spends most of his time barefoot on the red dirt and has a hobby of tracing the epitaphs on headstones.
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A number of carved wooden epitaphs belonging to various aristocratic families adorn the walls of the church.
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Their characteristic features were realism, variety of colour and rich symbolism (epitaphs, coats of arms, military accessories).
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She has published three collections of verse and a novel, as well as editing a biography and compiling a collection of satirical epitaphs.
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A program that looks at interesting epitaphs and the stories behind them.
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There they lie in peace away from their homeland, and the testimonial epitaphs on their tombs signify their endeavor and devotion to humanity.
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By the 1970s more inscriptions were discovered including 23 epitaphs belonging to a cemetery.
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Such epitaphs were frequently in metrical form, usually either hexameter or elegiacs.
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The term also included epitaphs and commemorative verses.
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The rest of the collection is filled with epitaphs, riddles, dedicatory epigrams, and the like.
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Inscribed on the "nishidhigal" were epitaphs that immortalized and described the scholarly and saintly achievements of the desceased one, man or woman.
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Examples of the scripts appeared most often on epitaphs and monuments, although other fragments sometimes surface.
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