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An urn is a container, often shaped like a tall vase, used for two very different things: holding the ashes of someone who has died after , or holding a hot drink like coffee or tea in large amounts, especially at a big event.
骨灰罈；（另一義）大茶壺／咖啡壺
原始詞典資料8 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。
urnnoun/ɜːn/
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A vase with a footed base.
- A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
- His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.
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A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
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A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- So draw him home to those that mourn In vain; a favourable speed Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
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Any place of burial; the grave.
- Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
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historicalA measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
urnverb/ɜːn/
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To place in an urn.
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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。