sepulchre

sepulchre
[ˈsɛp(ə)lkə]
( sepulcher)
noun
  1. a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried
    坟墓,冢
verb
  1. [with obj.](chiefly poetic/literary)lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre
    (主诗/文)埋葬;掩埋
    tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries.
    一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。
    ■serve as a burial place for
    为…作墓地
    when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead.
    当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。
语源
  1. Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'
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