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。
- Inside lay a casket of gold coins.
- (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 ExamplesTopics Life stagesc2- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wooden
- closed
- open
- …
- carry
- close
- lower
- …
- in a/the casket
- A procession of mourners slowly followed 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’.