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When you entomb someone, you put their body in a tomb — a stone room for the dead. People also use it when earth, rock, or a fallen building covers a person and they cannot get out. After an earthquake or a mine accident, news writers often say people were entombed in the ruins. It is a serious, rather old-sounding word; in ordinary talk you would more often say bury or trap. You can entomb the dead (that is a burial) or the living (they are stuck, and it is terrible). Though actually writers sometimes stretch it to ideas as well — a secret entombed in a book is shut away and not used — but that belongs to writing, not to everyday speech.
埋葬；封入墓穴。被土石困住也用這個字，口語中文多說「活埋」。
原始詞典資料2 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。
entombverb/ɪnˈtuːm/
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To deposit (a corpse) in a tomb.
- At Cihhu (Cihu), near the town of Dasi (Daxi), 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is “temporary,” as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China.
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To confine (someone or something) in restrictive surroundings.
- You mocking Birds (quoth ſhe) your tunes intombe / VVithin your hollovv ſvvelling feathered breaſts, / […] / Raliſh your nimble notes to pleaſing eares, / Diſtres likes dũps vvhẽ [dumps when] time is kept vvith teares.
- [A]fter the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
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。