【cemetery】 - SAT备考词汇

cemetery

UK:  ['semətri]

US:  ['semə.teri]

复数：cemeteries  

n.

1.墓地,公墓

2.归宿

1 . There was a high-speed chase and he lost control of his car. He survived a crash into a stone wall guarding a cemetery.
他在飙车躲避警察追截的时候，汽车失控了，一头撞到了墓地外的石墙上，但他却大难不死。

2 . Before Stewart charmed audiences with his British accent, he worked as a gravedigger at Highgate Cemetery in London during his teens.
在洛·史都华用他的英国腔迷倒歌迷之前，他年轻时在伦敦的高门墓地当掘墓者。

3 . He said he wanted to be buried in our family cemetery in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, "not in Syria, Dubai or Amman. "
他说要把自己那副老骨头埋在位于那贾夫市神圣的什叶派墓地里，而不是叙利亚，迪拜或阿曼。

4 . In the Laguna del Tigre national park lies a "cemetery" of more than 30 crashed light aircraft which had been used to ferry cocaine.
在虎湖（LagunadelTigre）国家公园有一块“墓地”，30多架用来空运可卡因的小型飞机在那坠毁。

5 . There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles.
山顶有久已废弃的墓园，各条小径灌木丛生，还有成排成排的空白墓碑。