单词 | cemetery |
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音标 | ['semitri] |
解释 | n. 坟墓,公墓 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n.坟墓,公墓(a place for the burial of the dead; graveyard) 【记】 cemet(睡)+ery→(死 后)睡的地方→坟墓; 联想:cement(水泥) ,用水泥造成坟墓(us e cement to build cemetery) |
字源 | cemetery (n.) late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei- "to lie, rest," also "bed, couch," hence secondary sense of "beloved, dear" (cognates: Greek keisthai "to lie, lie asleep," Old Church Slavonic semija "family, domestic servants," Lithuanian šeima "domestic servants," Lettish sieva "wife," Old English hiwan "members of a household," higid "measure of land," Latin cunae "a cradle," Sanskrit Sivah "propitious, gracious"). Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground," though the Greek word also had been anciently used in reference to the sleep of death. An Old English word for "cemetery" was licburg. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 坟墓, 公墓 = graveyard 【例】public cemetery 公墓 【根】come睡-死后睡觉的地方-坟墓cemet = cement水泥, 用水泥造坟墓ce读: 赛; met = meet相遇; 比赛谁相遇的时间长-只好死后埋在一起了. |
趣味全助记 | 【记】cement 水泥,水泥造的坟墓 |
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