graveyard

英 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːd]

美 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːrd]

n.  墓地，坟场(常在教堂附近); 垃圾场; 废物堆积处; 收容所

复数：graveyards　

TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.9850 / COCA.9979

牛津词典

noun

• 墓地，坟场（常在教堂附近）
  an area of land, often near a church, where people are buried
• 垃圾场；废物堆积处；收容所
  a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （有时指教堂边的）墓地，坟场
  Agraveyardis an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
  1. They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
     他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
• N-COUNT 废物堆积处；垃圾场
  If you call a place agraveyard ofparticular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.
  1. This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
     这里一度是全球最大的港口，现在堆满了锈迹斑斑的吊车。
• N-COUNT 令人屡遭失败的事;失意之地
  If you call an event or place thegraveyard forparticular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.
  1. Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
     欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。

英英释义

noun

• a tract of land used for burials
  Synonym:cemeteryburial siteburial groundburying groundmemorial parknecropolis

双语例句

• You work the graveyard shift?
  你是做夜班的？
• It's the graveyard for the white one!
  那是白人的墓地！
• Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
  欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。
• No longer are graveyard visitors limited to letters and numbers etched into tombstones.
  去墓地的人可以接触到的再也不仅仅是刻在碑石的字母和数字了。
• An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince.
  那是个大象的墓穴，可不是一个小王子可以去的地方。
• When we turn Moscow into a graveyard.
  等我们把莫斯科变成坟场。
• When they got to about the middle of the graveyard they were startled and stopped moving.
  当他们走到坟地的中间他们吓了一跳，停下来。
• And then, you must go to a graveyard at midnight.
  然后你要在半夜去到坟地里。
• It's nothing now but one big graveyard.
  现在什么都没了，只剩个大坟场。
• You're the one who left him in the graveyard last night, remember?
  昨天晚上就是你把他扔在墓地的，记得么？