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epitaph

音標['epitɑ:f] 讀音

漢語翻譯


n. 墓志銘, 碑文

詞型變化:

形容詞:epitaphic 

英文解釋:

名詞 epitaph:

  1. an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
  2. a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

例句:

  1. The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
    墓志銘的難能可貴之處是真實。
  2. Believe a woman or an epitaph, or any other thing that's false, before you trust in critics.
    與其相信批評家,不如相信女人、墓志銘、甚至任何一種騙人東西好了。
  3. He tried to read the epitaph on the monument.
    他試圖讀出墓碑上的銘文。

詳細解釋:


ep.i.taph

n.(名詞)
An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there.
墓志銘:刻於墓碑上用以懷念死者的碑銘
A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.
悼文:紀念死者的短篇文學作品

來源:
Middle English
中古英文
from Old French epitaphe
源自 古法文 epitaphe
from Latin epitaphium
源自 拉丁語 epitaphium
from Greek epitaphion [from neuter of] epitaphios [funerary]
源自 希臘語 epitaphion [] 源自epitaphios的中性詞 [葬禮]
epi- [epi-]
epi- [前綴,表.在…之前.]
taphos [tomb]
taphos [墳墓]

【引伸】
ep.itaph.ic
adj.(形容詞)

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