burial

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Related topics: Death

bur·i·al /ˈberiəl/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

1. MXthe act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave 埋葬；葬礼

2 the act of burying something in the ground 〔某物的〕掩埋

burial of

the burial of solid waste

掩埋粪便

Examples from the Corpus

burial• The price of a more elaborate service and burial looks to be £17,000.• Painter Betina Fink's new series, Ancestral Park, focuses on a contemporary burial ground near her home.• The patina the bronzes had acquired during burial was much admired, and people assumed that they had originally been patinated.• The tilting of the layers tells us of a period of gentle deformation that followed burial of the sediments.• Interor intra-mural burials were not typically observed within the houses of the Indus cities.• The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial.• Still, I feel certain our days at the burial site are numbered.• However, the survival of certain types of artefact is as much the result of various factors prior to burial as to post-depositional processes.

Origin burial

(1400-1500) burial “place where a body is buried” ((13-17 centuries)), from Old English byrgels

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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 5406 COCA: 6234

burial

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + BURIAL | BURIAL + VERB | BURIAL + NOUN | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤decent, proper體面的葬禮

▸➤Christian, etc.基督教儀式等的葬禮

VERB + BURIAL

➤give sb給某人舉行葬禮

◇We want to give him a decent Christian burial.我們想給他舉行一個體面的基督教式的葬禮。

➤attend, go to出席／去參加葬禮

BURIAL + VERB

➤take place葬禮舉行

BURIAL + NOUN

➤chamber, ground, mound, pit, place, plot, site, vault墓室；墓地；墓塚；墓坑；墳場；墳地；墳墓所在地；墓穴

◇An ancient burial site had been disturbed.古墳場的安寧被擾亂了。

➤ceremony, rites, service葬禮；殯葬禮儀；殯葬服務

PREPOSITION

➤for burial為埋葬

◇His body was returned home for burial.他的屍體已運回家鄉安葬。

➤burial in在⋯的埋葬

◇There were objections to the body's burial in consecrated ground.有人反對將這具屍體葬在聖地。

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 5406 COCA: 6234

burial