A casket with jewels was stolen yesterday. 一个带珠宝的首饰盒昨天被偷了。
The pretty casket is given to her by her former boyfriend. 这个漂后的首饰盒是她以前的男朋友送给她的。
casket
[ noun ]
box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
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small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
enclose in a casket
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Casket \Cas"ket\, n. (Naut.) A gasket. See {Gasket}.
Casket \Cas"ket\, v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket. [Poetic] ``I have casketed my treasure.'' --Shak.
Casket \Cas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. casquet, dim. of casque belmet, fr. Sp. casco.] 1. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
The little casket bring me hither. --Shak.
2. A kind of burial case. [U. S.]
3. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed; as: (a) The body. (--Shak.) (b) The tomb. (--Milton). (c) A book of selections. [poetic]
They found him dead . . . an empty casket. --Shak.
Gasket \Gas"ket\, n. [Cf. F. garcette, It. gaschetta, Sp. cajeta caburn, garceta reef point.] 1. (Naut.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. {Sea gaskets} are common lines; {harbor gaskets} are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also {casket}.
2. (Mech.) (a) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps. (b) Any ring or washer of made of a compressible material, used to make joints impermeable to fluids.
In an outpouring of emotion, tens of thousands of Chileans lined the streets to view the casket of toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende, whose remains were unearthed from a humble grave for an honorable burial.
For five hours, Americans filed past the casket to view the body.
His face was downcast and his shoulders hunched during much of the service, and his wife cried when they followed the tiny casket out of the church.
That outlay covers such items and services as a casket, memorial services and the use of a funeral home.
Many of the former SS men at the funeral July 8 wore the insignia of an SS veterans' group, and draped the casket of the former Hitler aide, Richard Schulze-Kossens, with wreaths bearing tributes from several former SS units, the newspaper said.
"We hold our fall festival every year, but the casket race is such a `monumental' effort for so many people we couldn't `handle' it every year," Darling said.
We go to the basement, where he knocks on a casket and says some words in a lost African language.
The ad will run in reverse sequence, with scenes of mourners at a cemetery, a hearse carrying a casket and a woman weeping by her husband's hospital bed.
Since it had been a closed casket, doubt had gnawed at the family for all these years: It's not really Larry, right?
Gorbachev walked to the foot of the casket, and stood for awhile in silence.
I've never been that close to a person in my life." There was no casket; a private burial is planned.
They join nearly 300 lawyers, 100 retired people, an actor, a cook and a casket manufacturer this week as they cram into the cramped auditorium of the Omni to nominate Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis for president.
A steady stream of people filed by the open casket of Salvador Dali today to pay their last respects to the surrealist painter who brought so much attention to his small hometown.
Die Welt said the casket was draped with wreathes bearing tributes from several former SS units.
His wife accompanied the casket to a Jewish cemetery outside Warsaw, while Starkopf left the city by another route.
Pallbearers carried the casket up the City Hall steps, and local leaders addressed the rally.
As was done before the first race, in 1983, a casket promoting the event is on display at a service station in the heart of town.
The parents appeared upset but did not cry when the small white-veiled casket, surrounded by pink and white flowers, was carried into the church.
They clapped and threw rose petals in accordance with Greek tradition as young pallbearers from the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation carried the casket outside the church.
A procession of about 7,000 people, including many students and elderly residents, filed past Dali's open casket in his Galatea Tower residence, then signed the guest books.
A photograph of a baby rested in the knotty pine casket with him.
Federal Judge Alberto Piotti formally released of the body at about 2 p.m. Wednesday as a group of family members and friends waited with the casket at Ezeiza International Airport.
The flag may be returned to the casket after the service.
An American flag covered Martin's casket.
For the past 10 years, Neel's funeral home and cemetery has offered a free casket, funeral service and burial to anyone killed in a drunken-driving accident during the end-of-year celebrations.
The strange case began when the widow and sister of Lupe Quesada told a San Jose, Calif., funeral home that the body in the casket was not their beloved husband and brother.
After a bugler played taps, the American flag draped over the soldier's casket was folded and presented to his wife, Charlene, who wept as she stood arm-in-arm with her 9-year-old daughter, the eldest of their four children.
Flowers, almost an entire garden, it seemed, surrounded the casket.
Pepper's family, members of Congress and his staff encircled the open casket for a brief memorial service.
In the heart of the garden is a grave containing a single casket symbolizing the 17 victims whose bodies were never found, 10 from the aircraft and seven from Lockerbie.