gravedigger

英 [ˈɡreɪvdɪɡə(r)]

美 [ˈɡreɪvdɪɡər]

n.  掘墓人

复数：gravediggers　

BNC.36008 / COCA.29024

牛津词典

noun

• 掘墓人
  a person whose job is to dig graves

柯林斯词典

• 掘墓人
  Agravediggeris a person whose job is to dig the graves in which dead people can be buried.

英英释义

noun

• a person who earns a living by digging graves

双语例句

• Samuel Beckett: Gravedigger of Words and Plots of Novels
  贝克特：小说语言与情节的掘墓人
• The gravedigger filled the grave.
  掘墓人把墓穴填上。
• After all, I can't dig a grave without reason. I'm no amateur gravedigger.
  无论如何，我不能平白无故地去挖一个墓穴。
• Ausiello: That's the plan. I suspect we'll start to see some Gravedigger action in May.
  答：计划是这样的，我严重怀疑会在五月看到这个掘墓人杀手再次出现。
• The gravedigger was happy too. In a short period, he had dug two graves, so his business was finally back on track and his bad luck over.
  掘墓人也喜从天降，短短一段时间里掘了两座墓穴，生意终于回归正常。
• I'm a poor gravedigger.
  我可是个可怜的掘墓人啊。
• Conversation between Gravedigger and Wife
  掘墓人与妻子的谈话
• Richard Rorty is a gravedigger of the objectivism tradition of the western philosophy.
  罗蒂是西方哲学客观主义传统的掘墓人。
• In the play "hamlet", it is usual for an actor to double the first gravedigger with the spirit of hamlet's father.
  在《哈姆莱特》这出戏里，演员通常既要扮演第一个掘墓人也要扮演哈姆莱特父亲的幽灵。
• Facing the challenge by new media, the manner of Chinese tradition newspapers has experienced the huge change in the short time, from initial ignorant to suddenly awakens, also discovered the originally content receiver already transformed into own gravedigger.
  面对新兴网络媒体的挑战，中国传统报纸的态度在短时间内经历了巨大的变化，从最初的懵懂无知到猛然觉醒，发现原本的内容接受者已经蜕变为自身的掘墓人。