epitaph

epitaph

英 ['epɪtɑːf; -tæf]
　　美 ['ɛpɪtæf]

n. 碑文，墓志銘

中文詞源：

epitaph 碑文，墓志銘

epi-, 在上，在中。-taph, 墓碑，詞源同cenotaph.

例句：

1. As Wren's epitaph famously declares, the cathedral itself is his monument.
眾所周知，雷恩的墓志銘中寫道，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年代住房政策的遺跡。

3. He wanted these lines as his epitaph.
他想把這些文字作為他的墓志銘.

4. She wrote the perfect epitaph for the poet.
她為詩人寫瞭完美的悼辭.

5. His epitaph should be: He did us good.
他的墓志銘應當是: 他為我們做瞭好事.