charnel house

英 [ˈtʃɑːnl haʊs]

美 [ˈtʃɑːrnl haʊs]

n.  (旧时)存放尸骨的地方

牛津词典

noun

• （旧时）存放尸骨的地方
  a place used in the past for keeping dead human bodies or bones

柯林斯词典

• 停尸房;骨灰堂
  Acharnel houseis a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.

英英释义

noun

• a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
  Synonym:charnel

双语例句

• Should divine life be immured in the charnel house of fleshly lust?
  圣洁的生活应该埋葬在肉体情欲的坟墓内吗？
• In just one hundred spring days, a million Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymen and a small African country was turned into a charnel house.
  在春季里短短一百多天内，数以百万的卢旺达图西族人被他们的死对头胡图族人屠杀，这使得卢旺达这样一个非洲小国变成了一个藏骸所。