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

Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
总是应该对墓地传来的毛骨悚然的音乐进行严密调查。
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。
When we turn Moscow into a graveyard.
等我们把莫斯科变成坟场。
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。
You mean Grandpa Jerry from the graveyard?
你说的是躺在墓地里的杰里爷爷吗？
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。
Davy Jones's locker-A graveyard for people killed or drowned at the sea.
DavyJones'slocker-海上被杀死或者淹死的人的坟场。
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。
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；
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。