墓地
mù dì
Pinyin
Definition
墓地
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- cemetery
- graveyard
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一个天南,一个地北
- 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一败涂地
- 1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
- 2 a crushing defeat
- 3 beaten and in a hopeless position
上天入地
- 1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)
- 2 fig. to go to great lengths
- 3 to search heaven and earth
上天无路,入地无门
- 1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope
- 3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation
五体投地
- 1 to prostrate oneself in admiration (idiom); to adulate sb
Sample Sentences
先放在家,等过了七七再说。哎,墓地还没买呢。
We'll put them at home first. We can decide after forty-nine days. Oh, we still haven't bought his burial plot.
两周后,李探长和小尤相约来到了王强父亲的墓地。墓碑上写着:神探王华。
Two weeks later, Detective Li and Xiao You arranged a time to go to the grave of Wang Qiang's father. On the gravestone was written "Legendary Detective - Wang Hua."
骨灰盒埋在墓地啊!
His cremation box is buried at the grave site!
墓地要钱吗?
Do you have to pay for the grave site?
至少要买一口好棺材。有的人家会修很豪华的墓穴,再立个墓碑。出殡那天请八九个青壮年把棺材抬到墓地去。还要请前来参加丧礼的亲戚朋友吃饭。
At the very least, you have to buy a good coffin. Some people construct really luxurious burial vaults and place a tombstone on top. On the day of the funeral procession, they'll find 8 or 9 strong, young people to help carry the coffin to the grave site. They'll also treat the relatives who came to the funeral earlier to a dinner.
就是,火化了也要埋,而且墓地一平方要好几万呢!等我死了,你把我的骨灰摆在家里供着好了。
True, you still do bury after cremation. Also, one meter of a grave site is tens of thousands of yuan! When I die, just keep my ashes in the house and honor me there.