graveyard

英 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːd]

美 [ˈɡreɪvjɑːrd]

n. 墓地，坟场(常在教堂附近); 垃圾场; 废物堆积处; 收容所

复数：graveyards　

Collins.1 / BNC.9850 / COCA.9979

牛津词典

noun

墓地，坟场（常在教堂附近）
an area of land, often near a church, where people are buried
垃圾场；废物堆积处；收容所
a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left

N-COUNT （有时指教堂边的）墓地，坟场
Agraveyardis an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
1. They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
  他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
N-COUNT 废物堆积处；垃圾场
If you call a place agraveyard ofparticular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.
1. This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.
  这里一度是全球最大的港口，现在堆满了锈迹斑斑的吊车。
N-COUNT 令人屡遭失败的事;失意之地
If you call an event or place thegraveyard forparticular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.
1. Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.
  欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。

noun

You work the graveyard shift?
你是做夜班的？
It's nothing now but one big graveyard.
现在什么都没了，只剩个大坟场。
Reservoir flooded a civil war graveyard with soldiers from both north and south.
蓄水库淹了一片埋有南方军和北方军的墓地。
I dare you to spend the night in the graveyard.
看你是否有种在墓地过夜。
They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.
他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
No longer are graveyard visitors limited to letters and numbers etched into tombstones.
去墓地的人可以接触到的再也不仅仅是刻在碑石的字母和数字了。
One night in the graveyard he and Huck Finn see three men.
一天晚上在坟场他和费恩、贝琪撒切尔看到了三个男人。
I disliked to go and look at the bed, it looked so like a graveyard of flowers.
我不愿再去看那花圃，它的样子落到好像一个花的坟场。
Once your active corpse decays we will resurrect you at the nearest graveyard.
一旦你的尸体开始腐坏，我们就会在最近的墓地将你复活。
You're the one who left him in the graveyard last night, remember?
昨天晚上就是你把他扔在墓地的，记得么？