tomb

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n. 坟墓, 死亡 vt. 埋葬

发音

UK /tuːm/
US /tum/
IN /ʈumb/

词形变化

tombs 复数 tombs tombed tombing tombs 三单 tombing 现在分词 tombed 过去式 tombed 过去分词

别名

tombe

教材释义与例句

名词

坟墓；死亡

a stone structure above or below the ground where a dead person is buried

动词

埋葬

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

    坟墓

    墓葬

    宅兆

  2. 2.

    A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

  3. 3.

    One who keeps secrets.

  4. 4.

    Death (literary)

    I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

v.
  1. 1.

    To bury.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

grave

上位词 2

place spot

下位词 6

burial chamber mastaba mastabah sepulcher sepulchre sepulture

部分词 3

tombstone headstone gravestone

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). The verb is from Middle English tomben.

来源：wiktionary