charnel house

美 [ˈtʃɑːrnl haʊs]英 [ˈtʃɑːnl haʊs]
  • n.(旧时)存放尸骨的地方

复数: charnel houses

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noun

(旧时)存放尸骨的地方
a place used in the past for keeping dead human bodies or bones

charnel house

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT 停尸房;骨灰堂
    A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.

noun

1
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
Synonym: charnel

数据来源:WordNet

  1. In just one hundred spring days , a million Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymen and a small African country was turned into a charnel house .

    在春季里短短一百多天内,数以百万的卢旺达图西族人被他们的死对头胡图族人屠杀,这使得卢旺达这样一个非洲小国变成了一个藏骸所。