- 1陵墓（氣派很大、專門安放遺體的建築；不是普通墳）
A mausoleum is a building made to hold the body of someone who has died — often one important person, or a whole family — instead of a simple grave in the ground. It is usually of stone, and it is meant to last and to be seen. Kings, emperors, and other powerful people have them; a small family tomb by a church is in the same family of ideas, but we tend to save mausoleum for the grand ones. The first building with this name was the huge tomb of a ruler called Mausolus, at Halicarnassus (in what is now Turkey), more than two thousand years ago. People in the ancient world listed it among their Seven Wonders. So the word began as a name for one tomb, then English borrowed it for any tomb of that kind. Though actually, in loose talk some people call any gloomy, oversized building a mausoleum, even if nobody is buried there — as if the place felt like a tomb. That is a stretch, and a slightly one.
組成From the name Mausolus + Greek -eion / Latin -eum, “a place or building for that person”. The original Mausoleum was his tomb at Halicarnassus.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Mausoleumname/ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
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The grand tomb built around 353–351 BCE at Halicarnassus for Mausolus, a ruler of Caria and satrap of the Achaemenid Empire; one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Phileus, an eminent Ionian architect, built the Mausoleum, in conjunction with Satyrus, and the temple of Athena Polias, at Priene. The date of the erection of the Mausoleum was soon after B.C. 353, the year in which Mausolus died; that of the temple at Priene must have been about 20 years later.
- Because of its status as a wonder of the world, the Mausoleum was admired by Vitruvius and Strabo and described with measurements by the elder Pliny.
mausoleumnoun/ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
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A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
- Holonym: cemetery
- His embalmed corpse, exhibited to this day in the mausoleum in Moscow, aptly symbolizes the new order which, he promised, was soon to embrace all mankind.
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A gloomy, usually large room or building.
- As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。