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'll die in the graveyard before you get it!
在拿到它之前，你会在墓地送命的！
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。
You'll walk around the graveyard in this cold& but you dare not cross it.
在这样一个大冷天，你也只敢绕远路，绕着墓地走回家；就是不敢穿过去。
It's the graveyard for the white one!
那是白人的墓地！
An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince.
那是个大象的墓穴，可不是一个小王子可以去的地方。
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。
Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard.
侦探们仍在搜捕那些亵渎了墓园的家伙。
And then, you must go to a graveyard at midnight.
然后你要在半夜去到坟地里。
When they got to about the middle of the graveyard they were startled and stopped moving.
当他们走到坟地的中间他们吓了一跳，停下来。
He was laid to rest in the graveyard where his parents were buried.
他被安葬在他父母的墓地里。