喜樂美語
  1. 1n/tuːm/陵墓；墓室

    A structure made of stone, standing above the ground or built under it, where a dead person is buried.

    「tomb」是「石頭造的墓」：有的像一間小石屋立在地面上，有的是蓋在地底下的石室，古代國王、詩人、家族的墓常常是這一種。它跟 grave 不一樣——grave 是在土裡挖出來的坑，tombstone 則是墓前那塊刻字的石碑；tomb 講的是整個石造建築本身。常見搭配：the family tomb（家族的墓）、a royal tomb（王室陵墓）、visit a tomb（去參觀、去看那座墓）。

    示範例句 · Example

    In history class we learned about the stone tombs of ancient Egypt.

    中文翻譯在歷史課我們學到了古埃及的石頭陵墓。

    常見搭配

    • the family tomb

      家族的墓

      the stone tomb where members of one family are buried

      Her grandparents are buried in the family tomb.

    • a royal tomb

      王室陵墓

      the tomb of a king, queen, or their family

      The museum has photos of royal tombs from three thousand years ago.

    • find / discover a tomb

      發現一座墓

      to come across a tomb that nobody knew about

      The team found a tomb hidden under the sand.

    • build a tomb

      建造陵墓

      to make a tomb for someone

      It took workers many years to build the great stone tomb.

    • visit a tomb

      去參觀／探望某座墓

      to go to a tomb to see it or to remember the person

      We visited the tomb of a famous writer on our school trip.

    • inside the tomb

      墓室裡面

      in the space within the stone structure

      Inside the tomb, the walls were covered with pictures and writing.

    意思相近

    mausoleumvaultcryptsepulchreburial chamber

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Old French tombe, from Latin tumba, from Ancient Greek túmbos 'burial mound, tomb'.

源自古法文 tombe，來自拉丁文 tumba，再源自古希臘文「墳丘」。

Wiktionary

You can picture a built place for the dead: not just a hole in the ground but stone shaped by human hands — a chamber cut into rock, or a heavy stone structure standing above the grave. Someone decided this body would be kept somewhere solid enough to still be there generations later.

可以想成一個「為死者蓋出來的空間」：不只是挖個洞埋起來，而是用石頭做出來的東西——可能是地底鑿出來的墓室，也可能是地面上一整座沉重的石造建築。重點在那份「蓋」的力氣：有人決定要讓這個人被放在一個幾百年後還在的地方。

同家族的字

tombs

意思相近

mausoleumvaultcryptsepulchreburial chamber

原始詞典資料6 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。

Tombname

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the given name.

tombnoun/tuːm/

  • 1

    A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

  • 2

    A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

    • As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
  • 3

    One who keeps secrets.

    • I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.
  • 4

    Death (literary)

    • I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

tombverb/tuːm/

  • 1

    To bury.

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。