cenotaph
英 ['senətɑːf; -tæf]
美
- n. 纪念碑；衣冠冢
词态变化
复数: cenotaphs;
中文词源
cenotaph 纪念碑，衣冠冢
ceno, 空的，来自PIE*skei, 砍，劈，词源同excise, scissor .-taph,坟墓，见epitaph,墓志铭。
英英释意
- 1. a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war
英文词源
- cenotaph
- cenotaph: [17] A cenotaph is literally an ‘empty tomb’: the word comes, via French and Latin, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos ‘empty’ and taphos ‘tomb’. The idea behind the name is that someone who had been killed far away from his or her home (for instance, in battle), and whose body could not be brought back, should be commemorated by a symbolic tomb.
- cenotaph (n.)
- c. 1600, from French cénotaphe (16c.), from Latin cenotaphium, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos "empty" (see keno-) + taphos "tomb, burial, funeral," from PIE root *dhembh- "to bury."
实用场景例句
- The Queen pain homage to the victims of two world wars by wreath on the Cenotaph.
- 女王向纪念碑了献花圈,以此向两次世界大战这中的牺牲者们表示敬意.
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- They have not found his body, so they just make a cenotaph for him.
- 他死后没有找到尸体, 只能做了一个衣冠冢.
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