cemetery
cemetery — 名詞
1. a piece of land, usually outside a town or city, where dead people are buried in
墓園
埋葬死者並設有墓碑的場所
a piece of land, usually outside a town or city, where dead people are buried in the ground, often with a stone marker showing their name
Priya visits the cemetery every spring to put flowers on her grandfather's grave.
Priya 每年春天都會去墓園，在她祖父的墳前放上鮮花。
collocation: visit a cemetery / put flowers on a grave
The old cemetery next to the river has graves from the nineteenth century.
河邊那座老墓園裡有十九世紀的墳墓。
Workers at the city cemetery dig new graves and take care of the grass.
市立墓園的工作人員負責挖掘新墓穴並維護草地。
Tall trees shade the cemetery paths, their leaves rustling above the rows of headstones.
高大的樹木為墓園步道遮蔭，樹葉在成排的墓碑上方沙沙作響。
A caretaker locks the cemetery gates each night, leaving the graves silent until morning.
管理員每晚鎖上墓園大門，墳墓在夜裡寂靜無聲。
- graveyard
usually smaller and attached to a church; older than a typical cemetery
- churchyard
the burial ground immediately surrounding a church, a type of graveyard
- burial ground
a general and more formal term for any place where people are buried
用法筆記
Frequently used with the prepositions 'in' (inside the grounds) and 'at' (referring to the location for an event or purpose): 'They met in the cemetery' versus 'They met at the cemetery.' The definite article 'the' is almost always required unless the cemetery is named: 'We went to the cemetery' / 'We drove to Greenlawn Cemetery.'