Pyre
[paɪə] or ['paɪɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
达琳錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Funeral pile.
安尼塔整理
解釋/意思:
n. a pile of wood &c. on which a dead body is burned.—adj. Pyr′al.
安吉洛手打
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And while Cr?sus related these things, already the pyre was lighted and the edges of it round about were burning. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Concerning his return to the body, he only knew that awaking suddenly in the morning he found himself lying on the pyre. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The preparation of a pyre is first described. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Why were they not immolated on the pyre of the husband, like the sati in India? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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