1560s, originally the flat stone atop a grave (or the lid of a stone coffin); from tomb + stone (n.). Meaning "gravestone, headstone" is attested from 1711. The city in Arizona, U.S., said to have been named by prospector Ed Schieffelin, who found silver there in 1877 after being told all he would find there was his tombstone.
双语例句
1. Vincent loomed over me, as pale and grey as a tombstone.
文森特赫然耸现在我面前，面色灰白得像一块墓碑。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A tombstone is erected in memory of whoever it commemorates.
墓碑是为纪念它所纪念的人而建的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The tombstone was lichenous and crumbling.
墓碑长满了地衣,已在崩落.
来自辞典例句
4. Here lie the mortal remains of George Chapman, eg as an inscription on a tombstone.
乔治.查普曼的遗体葬于此处(如墓碑上的志文).
来自辞典例句
5. The tombstone is inscribed with her name and the date of her death.
