1.a building or vault in which bones or dead bodies are placed
1.The plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without men whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants.
原野仿佛是一座巨大的阴森森的停尸所,没有一丝声息来惊扰长眠于此的无数不幸的死者。
2.At Simonopetra [Monastery] monks pile the bones of brothers in a charnel house.
在西莫诺佩特拉(修道院),修道士们把来自一个藏尸所的骨骸整齐地堆放好。
3.Egypt's revolution could go sour, Syria is a charnel-house and Iran is prone to sudden eruptions.
埃及革命的形势可能会恶化,叙利亚犹如藏尸房,伊朗很容易突然爆发。
4.Should pine life be immured in the charnel house of fleshly lust?
圣洁的生活应该埋葬在肉体情欲的坟墓内吗?