| 英语单词 | headstone |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['hedstəʊn] 美 ['hedstoʊn] |
| 中文释义 | n.墓石;基石 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The grave was marked by a simple headstone. (2) We must find this headstone praised by Templars. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 坟墓用了一块简陋的墓碑来标记。 (2) 我们得找到这块被圣殿骑士赞扬过的基石。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A headstone is a grave marker, usually inscribed with the dead person's name. You might visit your grandfather's grave each year, leaving flowers beside his headstone. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Another name for a headstone is a tombstone or a gravestone. True to its name, a headstone is often made out of a large piece of stone, frequently slate, granite, or marble. The meaning of headstone was originally "cornerstone," or the stone at the corner of the base of a building, but by the 1700s it came to mean "stone at the head of a grave." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]墓碑 A headstone is a large stone which stands at one end of a grave, usually with the name of the dead person carved on it. |
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