sepulchral
音标发音
- 英式音标 [sɪ'pʌlkr(ə)l]
- 美式音标 [səˈpʌlkrəl, -ˈpʊl-]
- 国际音标 [si'pʌlkrəl, -'pul-]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.坟墓的;丧葬的;阴深的
同根派生
- n性质的同根词
- sepulcher:坟墓;圣物置放处。
- sepulchre:坟墓;圣体安置所(等于Easte epulchre)。
- vt性质的同根词
- sepulcher:埋葬。
- sepulchre:埋葬;以…为坟墓。
英汉例句
- Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
这时一种阴森森的变态使这个百岁老人象年轻人一样竖直了身子。 - At one particularly strained meal, Babel’s elderly daughter asks a Babel specialist in her “fathomless, sepulchral” voice, “Is it true that you despise me?”
在一场特别不友善的宴席上,巴别尔的长女用她那“深不可测、阴森森的”声音问一位巴别尔专家,“你是不是真的瞧不起我?” - During a sepulchral press conference to launch the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report, the governor made it clear that he was losing no sleep over the rise in asset prices.
在一次气氛阴沉的发布英国央行季度通胀报告的新闻发布会上,这位英国央行行长明确表示,他不会因资产价格上涨而夜不能眠。 - But some of the guests find the atmosphere more than a tad sepulchral, and hanker for the hotel's crumbling past.
ECONOMIST: Pukkah hotels - At the Bergdorf branch, when we visited, we found much mauve velvet, a sepulchral hush and an air of mystery--but no customers.
FORBES: The Cult Of JAR - Bigelow and Fraser shot the sequence twice, accumulating forty hours of footage that was edited down to twenty-five minutes of sepulchral, green-tinted action—what you see through night-vision goggles.
NEWYORKER: Dead Reckoning
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- sepulchral chapel 坟堂
- sepulchral effigy 墓像
- sepulchral assassin 幽冥刺客
- sepulchral merry 阴深的
- Sepulchral Productions 出版者
短语
英英字典
- suggesting death or places where the dead are buried
- Something that is sepulchral is serious or sad and somewhat frightening.
- A sepulchral place is dark, quiet, and empty.