Some people fret that the new cemetery will further squeeze out space for corpses by giving relatives of the dead long-term rights to their loved ones’ plots. Historically Muslim burial grounds have managed to keep on welcoming new souls by recycling grave sites. Gravediggers in Miani Sahib, an old cemetery in the centre of Lahore, which has room for
around 300,000 graves, routinely bury people in plots that go unvisited. Today, as more Pakistanis invest in headstones and concrete shrines to protect remains, gravediggers in desperation sometimes seek out old-style earthen mounds, and a few place remains on top of bodies that were laid out just a few months earlier.
单词注解
fret / fret /
1 to worry about something, especially when there is no need 〔尤指不必要地〕烦恼，发愁
Don’t fret – everything will be all right.
别担心——一切都会好的。
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She’s always fretting about the children.
她老是为孩子发愁。
fret that
men of fifty, fretting that they’re no longer young
因不再年轻而烦恼的50岁男人
shrine / ʃraɪn /
1 a place that is connected with a holy event or holy person, and that people visit to pray 圣坛；圣地；圣殿
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his pilgrimage to the shrine of St John
他去敬奉圣约翰的圣地朝圣
2 a place that people visit and respect because it is connected with a famous person or event 〔与名人或著名事件有关的〕圣地
Elvis’ home has become a shrine for his fans.
猫王的故居成了歌迷的朝圣地。
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The museum is a shrine to the great Spanish artist.
这座博物馆是瞻仰这位伟大西班牙画家的圣地。
翻译
一些人们担心，为了给新墓地的亲人们前往他们亲人墓地的长期权利，而压缩死人的空间。从历史的角度上，穆斯林墓地一直通过循环利用墓地而欢迎新的灵魂。拉哈尔市中心的一个古老的墓地米亚尼•撒西比，大约有300000个坟墓的空间。去世的人们通常被埋在他们没有去过的地方。如今，随着越来越多的人们投资墓碑和混凝土圣地去保护遗迹，处于绝境的挖墓人有时寻找旧式的土墩，以及几个月前才入葬的尸体上方的一些地方。
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