epitaph是什麼意思 epitaph的用法 epitaph怎麼讀
epitaph
英 ['epɪtɑːf; -tæf]美 ['ɛpɪtæf]
n. 碑文，墓誌銘
星級詞彙:★
記憶方法
1. epi- "at, over, on" (see epi-) + taphos "tomb, funeral rites".中文詞源
epitaph 碑文，墓誌銘
epi-, 在上，在中。-taph, 墓碑，詞源同cenotaph.
英語詞源
epitaph
epitaph: [14] Greek táphos meant ‘tomb’, and so an oration that was epitáphios (an adjective formed with the prefix epí- ‘over’) was given ‘over the tomb’. Eventually the adjective was made into a noun, epitáphion, and this reached English via Latin epitaphium and Old French epitaphe.
epitaph (n.)
"inscription on a tomb or monument," mid-14c., from Old French epitaphe (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin epitaphium "funeral oration, eulogy," from Greek epitaphion "a funeral oration," noun use of neuter of epitaphios (logos) "(words) spoken on the occasion of a funeral," from epi "at, over" (see epi-) + taphos "tomb, funeral rites," from PIE root *dhembh- "to bury." Related: Epitaphial. Among the Old English equivalents was byrgelsleoð.
權威例句
1. As Wren's epitaph famously declares, the cathedral itself is his monument.
衆所周知，雷恩的墓誌銘中寫道，大教堂本身就是他的紀念碑。
2. These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.
這些貧民窟是20世紀60年代住房政策的遺蹟。
3. He wanted these lines as his epitaph.
他想把這些文字作爲他的墓誌銘.
4. She wrote the perfect epitaph for the poet.
她爲詩人寫了完美的悼辭.
5. His epitaph should be: He did us good.
他的墓誌銘應當是: 他爲我們做了好事.
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