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Vault
【雙語釋義】 A vault is a room underneath a church or in a cemetery where people are buried, usually the members of a single family.
C.N.（通常指安葬同一家族死者的）教堂地下室；墓穴；墓室
【典型范例1】He ordered that Matilda's body should be buried in the family vault.
他指示馬蒂爾達的遺體必須葬在家族墓穴里。
【典型范例2】The old patrician was buried in the family vault.
這位老貴族埋在家族的墓地里。
Race
【雙語釋義】any of several large subdivisions of mankind sharing physical characteristics, eg colour of skin, colour and type of hair, shape of eyes and nose。
人種; 種族
【典型范例1】They are Negro race.
他們是黑色人種。
【典型范例2】Those are people of mixed race.
這些人是混血兒。
Skeleton
【雙語釋義】If you say that someone has a skeleton in the closet, or in British English a skeleton in the cupboard, you mean that they are keeping secret a bad or embarrassing fact about themselves.
家丑;不可告人的丑事
【典型范例】Mr Worthing is this election's Mr Nice Guy, without any skeletons in his cupboard.
沃辛先生是此次選舉中的正派先生，本身沒有任何見不得人的丑事。
