cenotaph: [17] A cenotaph is literally an ‘empty tomb’: the word comes, via French and Latin, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos ‘empty’ and taphos ‘tomb’. The idea behind the name is that someone who had been killed far away from his or her home (for instance, in battle), and whose body could not be brought back, should be commemorated by a symbolic tomb.
cenotaph (n.)
c. 1600, from French cénotaphe (16c.), from Latin cenotaphium, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos "empty" (see keno-) + taphos "tomb, burial, funeral," from PIE root *dhembh- "to bury."
双语例句
1. Ex - servicemen march past The Cenotaph during the Remembrance Sunday service in Whitehall, London.
在伦敦怀特霍尔纪念日仪式上, 退役军人列队走过纪念塔.
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2. The Queen pain homage to the victims of two world wars by wreath on the Cenotaph.
女王向纪念碑了献花圈,以此向两次世界大战这中的牺牲者们表示敬意.
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3. They have not found his body, so they just make a cenotaph for him.