Pyre
[paɪə] or ['paɪɚ]
解释:
(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Funeral pile.
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解释:
n. a pile of wood &c. on which a dead body is burned.—adj. Pyr′al.
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例句:
- The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And while Cr?sus related these things, already the pyre was lighted and the edges of it round about were burning. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- On the twelfth day he was placed on the funeral pyre and there he came to life again, and told what he had seen in the world below. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Concerning his return to the body, he only knew that awaking suddenly in the morning he found himself lying on the pyre. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The preparation of a pyre is first described. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Why were they not immolated on the pyre of the husband, like the sati in India? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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