喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈseməteri/ · /ˈsemətri/墓園；公墓

    A piece of land where dead people are buried. It usually does not belong to a church, and it is often kept by a town or city for everyone, so it can be large and have many graves in it.

    示範例句 · Example

    Every April, Mei's family goes to the cemetery to clean her grandfather's grave and bring fresh flowers.

    逐字每年四月，美的家人都會去墓園清理她爺爺的墳墓，並帶來新鮮的花。

    cemetery 中文常說「墓園」或「公墓」，指的是「一整片埋葬死者的土地」，不是單獨的一座墳（那是 grave）。它跟 graveyard 很容易搞混——graveyard 是教堂旁邊、屬於那間教堂的那塊地；cemetery 通常不屬於任何教堂，是整個城鎮共用的，所以中文的「公」墓剛好講出了這個差別，範圍也大得多。這個字可以想成「睡覺的地方」：它從希臘文「睡覺的房間」長出來，所以英文裡的 cemetery 帶著安靜、休息的感覺，常常有樹、有小路，家人會走進去看看。

    常見搭配

    • the local cemetery

      當地的公墓

      the cemetery of the town or area you live in

      Many of the people who died that winter are buried in the local cemetery.

    • be buried in a cemetery

      被葬在墓園裡

      to be placed in the ground in a cemetery after dying

      Her grandparents are buried in the same cemetery.

    • visit a cemetery

      去墓園探望

      to go to a cemetery, usually to remember someone

      They visit the cemetery together every spring.

    • an old cemetery

      老墓園

      a cemetery that has been used for a very long time

      There is no name left on the oldest stone in the old cemetery.

    • a new cemetery

      新開的公墓

      a cemetery that has just been opened, often because the old one is full

      A new cemetery was opened after the churchyards became full.

    • a cemetery plot

      墓園裡的一塊墓地

      a small piece of ground in a cemetery that belongs to one family

      The family bought a cemetery plot with room for a tree beside it.

    意思相近

    graveyardburial groundmemorial park

core核心畫面

You can picture a wide piece of ground set aside for the dead — rows of graves and stones, laid out and looked after by the town rather than by a church, big enough that many families' dead lie side by side in the same place.

可以想成一片專門留給死者的土地：一排排的墓與墓碑，通常由城鎮或市政單位管理、對所有人開放，而不隸屬於某座教堂。因為不限教派，它往往佔地很大，裡面躺著許多不同人家的親人。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 cemeteries

意思相近

graveyardburial groundmemorial park

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cemeterynoun/ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɹi/

  • 1

    A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

    • The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...
    • They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.

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