| 释义 |
lie in state(Of the corpse of a person of national importance) be laid in a public place of honour before burial: the candlelit chapel where the king’s body lay in state...- And then at 8: 30 Eastern tomorrow night, the body will lie in state for the public.
- For eight decades he has been lying in state on public display, a cadaver in a succession of dark suits, encased in a glass box beside a walkway in the basement of his granite mausoleum.
- The body will then lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda so that the public will be able to pay tribute to him.
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