把人葬入土中
這是這個字最原本、也最常出現的用法：入土的對象是一個人的遺體。
burying a body · noun · C2
The act or ceremony of putting a dead person's body into a grave in the ground.
安葬
核心畫面
One way to picture it: something is lowered into a hole in the ground and covered over with earth, so it is now under the surface and out of sight. The word carries both the physical act and the sense of that comes with closing the ground over something.
把某個東西放進地上挖開的洞裡，再用土蓋回去——從此它在地面之下，看不見了。burial 這個字同時帶著這個動作本身，…更多收起
把某個東西放進地上挖開的洞裡，再用土蓋回去——從此它在地面之下，看不見了。burial 這個字同時帶著這個動作本身，和「土一蓋上去就結束了」的那種收尾感。Two branches
把東西埋進土裡
同樣是「放進地下、用土蓋住」的動作，只是對象換成物品或廢棄物，儀式性和告別的分量就退掉了。
burying an object · noun · C2
The act of putting something into the ground and covering it — used for objects, waste, or earth, not for a person's body.
掩埋
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
burialnoun/ˈbɛɹi.əl/
- 1
The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
- His whole family was present at his burial.
- The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。