• n. 墓地；公墓

來(lái)自PIE*kei, 躺，休息，詞源同home, city. 委婉語(yǔ)。-et, 小詞后綴，-ery, 地點(diǎn)后綴。

cemetery

cemetery: [14] Not surprisingly for a word having associations with death, cemetery’s origins are euphemistic. It comes via late Latin coemētērium from Greek koimētérion, which originally meant ‘dormitory’ (it was a derivative of the verb koiman ‘put to sleep’); it was apparently early Greek Christian writers who first applied the word to burial grounds.

cemetery (n.)

late 14c., from Old French cimetiere "graveyard" (12c.), from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion "sleeping place, dormitory," from koiman "to put to sleep," keimai "I lie down," from PIE root *kei- "to lie, rest," also "bed, couch," hence secondary sense of "beloved, dear" (cognates: Greek keisthai "to lie, lie asleep," Old Church Slavonic semija "family, domestic servants," Lithuanian ?eima "domestic servants," Lettish sieva "wife," Old English hiwan "members of a household," higid "measure of land," Latin cunae "a cradle," Sanskrit Sivah "propitious, gracious"). Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground," though the Greek word also had been anciently used in reference to the sleep of death. An Old English word for "cemetery" was licburg.

1. We got arrested once, for singing bawdy songs in a cemetery.

我們?cè)?jīng)因?yàn)樵诠钩铝鞲枨痪辛暨^(guò)一次。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. The whole area has been shocked by the desecration of the cemetery.

對(duì)墓地的褻瀆震驚了整個(gè)地區(qū)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. He walked numbly into the cemetery.

他糊里糊涂地走進(jìn)了墓地。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

他被安葬在海格特墓地。

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. The body was interred at the cemetery.

遺體埋葬在公墓里.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》