A graveyard is an area of land, sometimes near a church, where dead people are buried.
例句
They made their way to a graveyard to pay their traditional respects to the dead.他们按惯例前往墓地悼念死者。
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废物堆积处；垃圾场
If you call a place a graveyard of particular things, you mean that there are many broken or unwanted things of that kind there.
例句
This had once been the greatest port in the world, now it was a graveyard of rusting cranes.这里一度是全球最大的港口，现在堆满了锈迹斑斑的吊车。
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令人屡遭失败的事;失意之地
If you call an event or place the graveyard for particular people or their hopes, you mean that those people have often failed in such events or in that place.
例句
Europe has been the graveyard for American golfers recently.欧洲最近成了美国高尔夫运动员的滑铁卢。
英汉词典释义
n.
墓地,坟场(常在教堂附近)
He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.他那么留意墓地,令人毛骨悚然。