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Graveyard People N Count 可数名词 Area Call Place   [Usu

英语单词 graveyard
英美音标 英 ['ɡreɪvjɑːd] 美 ['ɡreɪvjɑːrd]
中文释义 n.墓地;废弃场地
英语例句 (1) He still sleeps in the old graveyard.
(2) The house has never been much cop. People don't like living opposite a church or a graveyard.
(3) The area had become a graveyard for old cars.
中文例句 (1) 他依旧长眠于那古老的墓地。
(2) 这幢房子从来就不值钱,人们不喜欢住在教堂或坟场的对面。
(3) 这块地方已成了堆放废弃汽车的场地。
柯林斯解释
1
[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。

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