Some people fret that the new cemetery will further squeeze out space for corpses by giving relatives of the dead long-term rights to their loved ones’ plots. Historically Muslim burial grounds have managed to keep on welcoming new souls by recycling grave sites. Gravediggers in Miani Sahib, an old cemetery in the centre of Lahore, which has room for
around 300,000 graves, routinely bury people in plots that go unvisited. Today, as more Pakistanis invest in headstones and concrete shrines to protect remains, gravediggers in desperation sometimes seek out old-style earthen mounds, and a few place remains on top of bodies that were laid out just a few months earlier.
單詞注解
fret / fret /
1 to worry about something, especially when there is no need 〔尤指不必要地〕煩惱署鸡,發(fā)愁
Don’t fret – everything will be all right.
別擔心——一切都會好的案糙。
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She’s always fretting about the children.
她老是為孩子發(fā)愁限嫌。
fret that
men of fifty, fretting that they’re no longer young
因不再年輕而煩惱的50歲男人
shrine / ?ra?n /
1 a place that is connected with a holy event or holy person, and that people visit to pray 圣壇;圣地时捌;圣殿
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his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John
他去敬奉圣約翰的圣地朝圣
2 a place that people visit and respect because it is connected with a famous person or event 〔與名人或著名事件有關的〕圣地
Elvis’ home has become a shrine for his fans.
貓王的故居成了歌迷的朝圣地怒医。
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The museum is a shrine to the great Spanish artist.
這座博物館是瞻仰這位偉大西班牙畫家的圣地。
翻譯
一些人們擔心奢讨,為了給新墓地的親人們前往他們親人墓地的長期權利稚叹,而壓縮死人的空間。從歷史的角度上拿诸,穆斯林墓地一直通過循環(huán)利用墓地而歡迎新的靈魂扒袖。拉哈爾市中心的一個古老的墓地米亞尼?撒西比,大約有300000個墳墓的空間佳镜。去世的人們通常被埋在他們沒有去過的地方僚稿。如今,隨著越來越多的人們投資墓碑和混凝土圣地去保護遺跡蟀伸,處于絕境的挖墓人有時尋找舊式的土墩计盒,以及幾個月前才入葬的尸體上方的一些地方主守。