headstone
/ˈhedstəʊn/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈhedstəʊn/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈhed-ˌstōn/ (ame, mw)
headstone — 名詞
- headstonesingular
- headstonesplural
1. A carved stone slab that marks a burial site by standing at the top end of the g
墓碑
墓穴前方的石製標記，刻有死者姓名等資訊
A carved stone slab that marks a burial site by standing at the top end of the grave, usually inscribed with the deceased person's name, dates, and sometimes a short message.
The granite headstone for Grandma Eleanor arrived a week before the funeral.
祖母 Eleanor 的花崗岩墓碑在葬禮前一週就送到了。
collocation: granite / marble / stone headstone
Every year on his father's birthday, Yuto places flowers by the headstone at the cemetery.
每年父親生日那天，Yuto 都會在墓園的墓碑旁放上鮮花。
Wind and rain had worn the old headstone until its letters were unreadable.
那座老墓碑經過風吹雨打，刻的字已經完全看不清了。
Mei-Lin chose a simple white marble headstone with a small dove carved in the corner.
Mei-Lin 選了一塊簡單的白色大理石墓碑，角落刻著一隻小鴿子。
Workers at the historic cemetery carefully cleaned each headstone to remove moss and dirt.
歷史墓園的工作人員仔細清洗每一塊墓碑，去除青苔和泥土。
- gravestone
broadly interchangeable; gravestone is slightly older in register
- tombstone
more informal and more likely to appear in figurative uses ('a tombstone of a once-great company')
- marker
a more general term that includes flat plaques and bronze plates; not limited to upright stones
用法筆記
Frequently modified by material nouns and adjectives describing the stone type (granite, marble, limestone) or shape (flat, upright, sloping).