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

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 mean Grandpa Jerry from the graveyard?
你说的是躺在墓地里的杰里爷爷吗？
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。
You work the graveyard shift?
你是做夜班的？
Sarah went to his father's graveyard.
萨拉去了他爸爸的墓地。
In the map just north of the signpost there is a graveyard.
在地图中，往北的指路牌，有一个墓地。
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。
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。
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。
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。