charnel

[US]/'tʃɑːn(ə)l/
[UK]/'tʃɑrnl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 似停屍房的;陰森的;恐怖的
n. 藏骸所;停屍房;埋葬場所
Word Forms
複數charnels

Phrases & Collocations

charnel house

屍體堆積處

charnel ground

屍骨殿堂

Example Sentences

I gagged on the charnel stench of the place.

這地方的死亡氣息讓我窒息。

Europe in the immediate post-war period had become a charnel house.

歐洲在戰事剛結束時成了屍橫遍野的地方。

The bombing turned the barracks into a charnel house.

轟炸使營房變成了藏骸所

Vowed Charnel, who traveled everyplace With her slippered foot in a velvet case.

查耐爾如此發誓,他到處遊走帶着裝在天鵝絨盒子裏的她穿着拖鞋的腳。

charnel house of war

戰爭的殘酷場面

charnel ground of history

歷史的殘酷一面

the charnel house of memory

記憶中的殘酷場景

charnel house of the mind

心靈的恐怖場所

Real-world Examples

This wasn't a hospital. This was a charnel house.

那裏不是醫院,而是一間停屍房。

Source: Women Who Changed the World

Within the bosom of the encircling hills, an impenetrable darkness had already settled; and the plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without omen or whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.

四周羣山的腹地之中,已經籠罩了一層深不可測的黑暗。平原就像一個巨大而荒涼的停屍房,沒有預兆或耳語來打擾無數倒黴的房客的沉睡。

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

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