| 单词 | sepulcher |
| 释义 | sepulcher (once / 10620 pages) n A sepulcher is a burial vault or tomb, like the one that is featured prominently in the final scenes of Romeo and Juliet. (Of course, for those who haven’t read the play yet, we’re not suggesting that anyone dies, necessarily.) Sepulchers often appear in literature, probably because they instantly convey sadness, spookiness, and all sorts of other unpleasant emotions. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” tells the story of the narrator's true love, who now lies “[i]n the sepulcher there by the sea.” When reading "Annabel Lee," Romeo and Juliet, and other similarly depressing works aloud, note that sepulcher is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable. WORD FAMILYsepulcher: sepulchers USAGE EXAMPLESRight, because the various strains of Christian clerics at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher don’t sometimes attack one another with brooms? The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) It was part of a complex renovation at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, perhaps Christianity’s holiest site. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) “He is a hypocrite and a whited sepulcher!” Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) n a chamber that is used as a grave Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper burial chamber, sepulchre, sepulture Holy Sepulcher the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection Mausoleum at Halicarnasusa white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402 Taj Mahalbeautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife crypt a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) mausoleuma large burial chamber, usually above ground monument, repositorya burial vault (usually for some famous person) burial vault, vaulta burial chamber (usually underground) charnel, charnel housea vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited columbariuma sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns chamber a natural or artificial enclosed space grave, tomba place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。