(noun.) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite.
安东录入
双语例句
The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
And while Cr?sus related these things, already the pyre was lighted and the edges of it round about were burning. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
On the twelfth day he was placed on the funeral pyre and there he came to life again, and told what he had seen in the world below. 柏拉图.理想国.
Concerning his return to the body, he only knew that awaking suddenly in the morning he found himself lying on the pyre. 柏拉图.理想国.
The preparation of a pyre is first described. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Why were they not immolated on the pyre of the husband, like the sati in India? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.