Charnel
[tʃɑ:nәl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; 'a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones'; 'ghastly shrieks'; 'the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs' .
埃利斯手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
(n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
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解釋/意思:
adj. of or pertaining to a charnel or burial-place as in 'charnel-vault ' &c.: sepulchral death-like.—n. Char′nel-house a place where the bones of the dead are deposited.
格温多林手打
例句/造句/用法:
- They have dug a hole, and they have found things like flowerpots upside down, Mis'ess Yeobright; and inside these be real charnel bones. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
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