cas·ket

noun

/ˈkɑːskɪt/

/ˈkæskɪt/

a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past（尤指旧时放珠宝等贵重物品的）精致小盒，装饰精美的小箱
- Inside lay a casket of gold coins.里面放着一箱金币。
(North American English)
(also coffin especially in British English)
a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated棺材；棺椁；棺木
- A procession of mourners slowly followed the casket.一队哀悼者慢慢地跟随在灵柩后面。
Extra Examples
- The casket was lowered into the grave.棺材放进了墓穴。
- an open-casket funeral开放灵柩葬礼
- the flag-draped caskets of soldiers coming home覆盖着国旗的回国士兵的灵柩
Topics Life stagesc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- wooden
- closed
- open
- …
verb + casket
- carry
- close
- lower
- …
preposition
- in a/the casket

Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.

单词	casket
释义	cas·ket noun /ˈkɑːskɪt/ /ˈkæskɪt/ a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past（尤指旧时放珠宝等贵重物品的）精致小盒，装饰精美的小箱 Inside lay a casket of gold coins.里面放着一箱金币。 (North American English) (also coffin especially in British English) a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated棺材；棺椁；棺木 A procession of mourners slowly followed the casket.一队哀悼者慢慢地跟随在灵柩后面。 Extra Examples The casket was lowered into the grave.棺材放进了墓穴。 an open-casket funeral开放灵柩葬礼 the flag-draped caskets of soldiers coming home覆盖着国旗的回国士兵的灵柩 Topics Life stagesc2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective wooden closed open … verb + casket carry close lower … preposition in a/the casket Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.
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