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 graveyard ['greivjɑ:d]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 墓地

  1. A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.
    墓地埋葬死者的地方;坟地
  2. The house has never been much cop. People don't like living opposite a church or a graveyard.
    这幢房子从来就不值钱,人们不喜欢住在教堂或坟场的对面。
  3. How long have you worked graveyard?
    你做夜间工作多长时间了?


graveyard
[ noun ]
a tract of land used for burials
<noun.location>


Graveyard \Grave"yard"\, n.
A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a
cemetery.

  1. Excavation began four years ago when a backhoe, clearing land for a house, uncovered a graveyard.
  2. Striking workers at 10 San Francisco Bay area cemeteries said Sunday they would return to work Monday after accepting an agreement worked out with graveyard owners over the weekend.
  3. We stroll through the monks' graveyard, neat, unadorned tomb stones laid out like a soldier's cemetery. Before going, a look at the visitor's book.
  4. He is now back at Oakdale supervising inmates on the graveyard shift.
  5. In the meantime, she told us how to find the Jewish graveyard and the residence of the parish priest. A soft August rain was falling but we decided to walk to the cemetery rather than drive.
  6. Beatty also has come up with a splendid New York skyline backdrop for his Queens graveyard.
  7. Then, suddenly, it becomes a graveyard of upended restaurant chairs, littered sidewalks and lost souls torn between that elusive last drink and the last bus home.
  8. ALL EYES turn to New Hampshire today as the granite state, so often the graveyard of presidential ambitions, holds the first primary election of the 1992 campaign.
  9. What they do, that's their business." Disc jockey Paco Lopez has been working at a radio station here for only four months, so he had to do a stint on the graveyard shift.
  10. A paupers' graveyard for 121 years, it is among the most intensively used pieces of real estate in New York City.
  11. Men took turns carrying Humeidat's body to the graveyard, each wanting to touch him in a last show of respect.
  12. At the graveyard, the mourners grumble about how the cemetery is segregated: the upper level for the rich and retired army officers, the lower level for the poor.
  13. Many of the problems at Peach Bottom occured on the overnight, or "graveyard" shift.
  14. Besides its own graveyard, it now owns a large hospital.
  15. The graveyard procession includes a man with a withered leg, a dwarf, four plump grandmothers in traditional batik dress and two youths wearing sunglasses.
  16. Before the union rejected the company's offer and the strike was launched with the graveyard shift of Oct. 4, Boeing had been counting on turning 96 aircraft out the door in the present period.
  17. President Bush's clean air bill is advancing through a House committee that once was a graveyard for air pollution legislation, but the measure is saddled with a conflict between top administration officials.
  18. Iraq, which said it set up a provisional Kuwaiti government, warned foreign governments it would turn the rich sultanate into a "graveyard" if they came to Kuwait's aid.
  19. The forest service archaeologist said she believed the graveyard was in use for 50 to 60 years.
  20. He said his father is buried in the graveyard, but his tomb was not among the damaged.
  21. Some looting was also reported in Myrtle Beach. "It's like stealing from a graveyard," shopowner Connie Brewer said.
  22. In 1985, American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed from a graveyard in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.
  23. He admits that the eerie quiet and whipping autumn wind he encountered during a recent graveyard stakeout gave him the "willies."
  24. Though RJR seems to have avoided the graveyard of many late-1980s LBOs, a small disappointment in operating profit would leave the company with much less in net income than investors expect.
  25. Ms Anna-Tatiana Bauer said her family did not even have the right to reclaim the family church, or the graveyard.
  26. Todd Lewan visited the graveyard.
  27. But with Spy's possible sale bandied about for months and amid an expanding graveyard of once-hot, hip magazines, some advertisers are hedging their bets.
  28. Dukakis also referred to President Reagan's trip to a German graveyard where Nazi SS troops were buried. "There will be no trips to Bitburg," Dukakis said.
  29. But he appears to be whistling past the graveyard.
  30. Other American presidents have painfully learned that the Middle East can become a graveyard for U.S. servicemen, a prison for hostages and a sand trap for politicians.
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