cemetery
英 ['semɪtrɪ]
美 ['sɛmə'tɛri]
助記提示
1. 諧音“死墓這裏、死墓頭裏、死墓特裏”。
2. cemet- (諧音“水蜜桃”) + -ery (後綴) => 水蜜桃果園的旁邊是一個巨大的墳場、墓地。
3. cemet- (諧音“施密特”) + -ery (後綴) => 穀歌公司的CEO施密特在美國烈士紀念日當天到烈士公墓去瞻仰了所有為國犧牲的烈士。
4. cemet- (諧音“死墓塌、死墓掏”)-----這個死人墓塌陷了。
中文詞源
cemetery 公墓來自PIE*kei, 躺，休息，詞源同home, city. 委婉語。-et, 小詞後綴，-ery, 地點後綴。
英文詞源
- cemetery
- cemetery: [14] Not surprisingly for a word having associations with death, cemetery’s origins are euphemistic. It comes via late Latin coemētērium from Greek koimētérion, which originally meant ‘dormitory’ (it was a derivative of the verb koiman ‘put to sleep’); it was apparently early Greek Christian writers who first applied the word to burial grounds.
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. We got arrested once, for singing bawdy songs in a cemetery.
- 我們曾經因為在公墓唱下流歌曲而被拘留過一次。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The whole area has been shocked by the desecration of the cemetery.
- 對墓地的褻瀆震驚了整個地區。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He walked numbly into the cemetery.
- 他糊裏糊塗地走進了墓地。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
- 他被安葬在海格特墓地。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. The body was interred at the cemetery.
- 遺體埋葬在公墓裏.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》