graveyard

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n. 墓地

发音

US /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/

词形变化

graveyards 复数 graveyards

别名

grv

教材释义与例句

名词

墓地

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tract of land in which the dead are buried.

    坟地

    公墓 墓地

    坟场

    公墓

    墓地

  2. 2.

    A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

    比喻 引申义
  3. 3.

    A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

    The discard pile, in some trading card games.

    比喻 引申义
  4. 4.

    A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.

    A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.

    比喻 体育 引申义
  5. 5.

    A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.

    定语

    graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch

  6. 6.

    Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

    美国 俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

cemetery burial ground burying ground memorial park necropolis

上位词 2

site landsite

下位词 1

potter's field

相关短语

graveyard shift [经] 夜间轮班 graveyard watch [网络] 墓地手表 graveyard poetry graveyard shifts graveyard spiral graveyard slot graveyard slots graveyard orbit graveyard orbits graveyard watches graveyard spirals graveyard stew Graveyard of the Atlantic Graveyard of Empires graveyard of empires

词源

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).

来源：wiktionary