Tomb
[tuːm] or [tum]
解释:
(n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
(n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
(n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
(v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
校对:赛克
同义词及近义词：
n. Sepulchre, vault, crypt, catacomb, grave, house of death, narrow house, long home.
伊丽莎白编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Grave, vault, catacomb, sepulcher, crypt, house_of_death, narrow_house,long_home
校对:罗杰
解释:
n. a pit or vault in the earth in which a dead body is placed: a tombstone.—adjs. Tomb′ic; Tomb′less without a tomb.—n. Tomb′stone a stone erected over a tomb to preserve the memory of the dead.
格雷格整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business. Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness. To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments. To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.
整理:劳埃德
娱乐性解释：
n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them the famous Egyptologist Dr. Huggyns explaining that a tomb may be innocently 'glened ' as soon as its occupant is done 'smellynge the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
编辑:罗比
例句:
- There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- A large marble tomb would not please me. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- From Egyptian tomb-paintings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I have lived my last winter, and the date of this year, 2092, will be carved upon my tomb. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I saw the white tomb again, and the veiled woman rising out of it by Hartright's side. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I felt I ought to do it, for life is uncertain and I don't want any ill feeling over my tomb. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There is the fact of the funeral at Limmeridge, and there is the assertion of the inscription on the tomb. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Finally he set aside ten thousand talents (a talent = ?240) for a tomb. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- There was the marble cross, fair and white, at the head of the tomb--the tomb that now rose over mother and daughter alike. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- On the next day Laura knew that his death had released her, and that the error and the calamity of her life lay buried in his tomb. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The high walls of the tomb, and the flaming sword of plague, lie between it and him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- When Evadne pronounced my death, I thought that the title of Victor of Constantinople would be written on my tomb, and I subdued all mortal fear. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- We had two noted tombs near us, too. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- All oracles were at the tombs of Heroes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We have pictures of this from ancient Egypt, in which the process of twisting strips of leather into rope is shown on the walls of their tombs. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He took great liberties with the Egyptian temples, and remained at Memphis opening ancient tombs and examining the dead bodies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- And the names that be upon their tombs, even unto this time, are Johannes Smithianus, Trumps, Gift, High, and Low, Jack, and The Game. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Long she sat at her lattice, long gazed down on the old garden and older church, on the tombs laid out all gray and calm, and clear in moonlight. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She heard Mr. Helstone come in; she saw Robert stride the tombs and vault the wall; she then went down to prayers. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- These large apartments were tombs. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
校对:拉弗尔斯