Graveyard People Place Things N Count 可数名词 Area ˈɡreɪvjɑːd
The card defines the noun "graveyard" as an "area of land where people are buried" or figuratively as "a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left."
[N-COUNT 可数名词](有时指教堂边的)墓地,坟场 A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]废物堆积处;垃圾场 If you call a place a graveyard of particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.
[usu sing]
[disapproval]
This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
这里一度是全球最大的港口,现在堆满了锈迹斑斑的吊车。
3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]令人屡遭失败的事;失意之地 If you call an event or place the graveyard for particular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.
[usu N for/of n]
[WRITTEN 笔语]
Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。
Oxford
grave·yard/ˈɡreɪvjɑːd; NAmEˈɡreɪvjɑːrd/noun1an area of land, often near a church, where people are buried 墓地,坟场(常在教堂附近)☞compare
cemetery
,
churchyard
2a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left 垃圾场;废物堆积处;收容所graveyardgraveyardsgrave·yard/ˈɡreɪvjɑːd; NAmEˈɡreɪvjɑːrd/
1an area of ground where people are buried, often next to a church → cemetery, churchyard2a place where things that are no longer wanted are left: a graveyard for old cars3a place where people or things fail
WDF
graveyard
[ˈgreɪvjɑ:d]
TEM4IELTS
n10210
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NOUN10358
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Spoken:
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graveyards[368]
墓地(99%),废弃场地(1%)
n.墓地
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