pyre

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pyr(o)= fire 火

pyre n. (火葬用的)柴堆

pyr 火 + e → 用来烧火的柴堆 → 柴堆

pyromania n. 纵火狂

pyro 火 + mania …狂 → 纵火狂

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The old Rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.

原来老土王并没有死!他突然地站了起来,象幽灵一样双手抱着那个年轻的女人,走下了火葬坛,在那弥漫的烟雾里,他更象是一个妖怪!

Added funeral pyre map icon just for the hell of it.

新增葬礼柴堆只为它地狱地图图标。

Police have surrounded the village to prevent people from visiting the site of the funeral pyre.

警察已经被部署在村庄周围,防止人们来参拜火葬的柴堆。

In Westeros the dead of House Targaryen were given to the flames, but who would light her pyre here?

在维斯特洛大陆,坦格利安家族的人都以火葬来给生命画上句号,可是在这儿谁会给她堆起柴堆呢?

The old rajah's body, indeed, now appeared upon the burning pyre;

事实上,老土王的死尸仍然还躺在那冒着火焰的火葬坛上。

"In india, when a man dies he is burned, instead of buried, and his wife always climbs on the funeral pyre and is burned with him."

“在印度,一个男人死了就烧掉,而不是埋葬,同时他的妻子也总是爬到火葬堆上同他一起被烧死。”