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

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。
He suggested we should go eat after my graveyard shift.
他建议说我们可以在我的大夜班之后一起去吃东西。
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。
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。
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。
And then, you must go to a graveyard at midnight.
然后你要在半夜去到坟地里。
Subsequent patches saw Korrak moving to Snowfall Graveyard and eventually packing his bags for greener pastures.
于是，在之后的补丁中，我们看见了科尔拉克移动到了雪落墓地；
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。
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。
Sarah went to his father's graveyard.
萨拉去了他爸爸的墓地。