charnel

1 Nixon and Kissinger expanded the war in Southeast Asia, leaving Laos a cratered wreck, Cambodia a charnel house, Americans at each other’s throats and Vietnam with an armistice that yielded neither peace nor honor.

2 Scaled up to a necropolis, it could make the right impression, a modernist Hooverville of death in the shadow of our great national charnel house of inaction.

3 At Arnold H. Lieberman a large Tibetan coffer is painted with a hair-raising charnel ground scene.

4 What lay on the pillow was a charnel-house, a heap of pus and blood, a shovelful of putrid flesh.

5 "Care homes became charnel houses because there was no testing, there was insufficient PPE, but, most disastrously, it's because they discharged people from hospitals without testing them."

6 He described Buchenwald - one of the largest camps inside Germany - as a "charnel house of indescribable horrors".

7 Syria remains a charnel house and the Islamic State a serious threat.

8 And it was there, perhaps, that the AK-47 was transformed, in Africa most graphically, from tool of liberation to the 30-round-per-clip device that turned small wars into vast charnel houses.

9 President Woodrow Wilson — could conceive of no alternative but to try harder, even as the seat of Western civilization became a charnel house.

10 At Simonopetra [ Monastery ] monks pile the bones of brothers in a charnel house.

在这所修道院中,僧侣们把他们教友的遗骸累积在专门的存放遗骸的房子里.

11 The land for the cemetery was originally leased from St Paul's Cathedral, which had used it as a dumping ground for bones being cleared from the charnel house and tiny burial ground around the church.

12 An urban flâneur like the central character in Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd,” he immerses himself in Poe’s “The Premature Burial,” only to find himself placed in a coffin, “the world growing charnel, grim.”

13 Primary blame for those 100,000 deaths must go to the killer itself — the novel coronavirus that spreads so easily, overwhelms defenseless immune systems and turned New York hospitals into charnel houses.

14 Many will take the witness stand to recount how a movie theater became a charnel house of bullets, tear gas, screams and blood.

15 But “Zion,” Mauriac wrote, had “risen up from the crematoria and charnel houses. The Jewish nation has been resurrected from among its thousands of dead.”

16 Connecting the Alps and the Adriatic, this hiking trail showcases the heritage of the Isonzo Front, including fortifications, military cemeteries and charnel houses, alongside the region’s stunning natural scenery.

17 Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, has been burned to the ground, a charnel house of mangled corpses.

18 Oversensitive pagan intellectuals, for example, were really appalled by the early Christians' enthusiasm for bones and called their churches "charnel houses".

19 Ukraine remains a charnel house while other areas — the Persian Gulf, the Korean peninsula, the Taiwan Strait — may erupt at any time.

20 Above their heads: a charnel house of endangered trees.

1 昏暗的

dark dead obscure shadowy sullen

2 死人般

ghastly

3 惨淡的

dismal cheerless drear

4 纳骨堂

Golgotha

5 昏暗

dark dead obscure shadowy sullen dusk opacity lower

6 死人般的

ghastly

7 恐怖

haircurling heart-stricken heart-struck ghastful dirty tremendous horrible horrific dire hairy horrendous horrid ghastly hair-raising Kafkaesque direful hab-dabs alarm horror terror fright affright gastness terrify terrorize appall

8 恐怖的

haircurling heart-stricken heart-struck ghastful dirty tremendous horrible horrific dire hairy horrendous horrid ghastly hair-raising Kafkaesque direful

9 阴森森的

spooky gruesome Stygian grewsome

10 死一样

dead deathly deathful

11 死一样的

dead deathly deathful