crypt
noun /krɪpt/
/krɪpt/
- a room under the floor of a church, used especially in the past as a place for burying people
(尤指旧时做墓穴用的)教堂地下室 - Nelson’s final resting place was in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral.
纳尔逊最后的安息处是在圣保罗大教堂的地下墓穴。
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’. - Nelson’s final resting place was in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral.