coffin

B1 大学 FREQ #4615 ★★☆☆☆

n. 棺材, 灵柩 vt. 把...装进棺材

发音

UK /ˈkɒfɪn/
US /ˈkɔfɪn/
/ˈkɑfɪn/

词形变化

coffins 复数 coffined coffining coffins 三单 coffins coffining 现在分词 coffined 过去式 coffined 过去分词

别名

cophin coffyn coffan coffen goffin goffan goffen

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

    棺材

    棺柴

    棺木

    20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.

  2. 2.

    The eighth Lenormand card.

    宗教 哲学
  3. 3.

    A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

    古体
  4. 4.

    A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

    废旧
  5. 5.

    The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

  6. 6.

    A storage container for nuclear waste.

  7. 7.

    A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.

  8. 1.

    An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.

    废旧 商务 采矿
  9. 2.

    A deep ditch.

    引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    To place in a coffin.

    把……放入棺材

    及物

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词源

From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.

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