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graveyard

英 ['greɪvjɑːd] 美 ['ɡrevjɑrd]

n. 墓地

英文詞源

graveyard (n.): 1683, from grave (n.) + yard (n.1). Graveyard shift "late-night work" is c. 1907, from earlier nautical term, in reference to the loneliness of after-hours work.

雙語例句

1. Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.: 歐洲最近成了美國高爾夫運動員的滑鐵盧。

2. Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard.: 偵探們仍在搜捕那些褻瀆了墓園的家夥。

3. They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.: 他們按慣例前往墓地悼念死者。

4. This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.: 這裏一度是全球最大的港口，現在堆滿了鏽跡斑斑的吊車。

5. It was standing in the graveyard, in the grass, its bottom missing.: 站在墓地的青草上麵去了, 而且瓶底已經丟失,雖然丟失了也就讓它空空地站在墓邊.

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