( <美> sepulcher)
- a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried岩穴墓; 石墓。
with obj.
1- chiefly poetic/literary lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre〈主诗/文〉埋葬; 掩埋：
tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries.
一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。
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- serve as a burial place for作为…的墓地, 埋葬：
when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead.
当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。
词源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'.