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Headstone Grave Dead Large Stone 英 Hedstəʊn] 美 Hedstoʊn

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
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[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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