gravestones

Other stories are frankly bizarre: the crunch is alleged to have given a fillip to sales of cake, wooden "gravestones", West End musicals and tickets to see the film Mamma Mia!

坦率的来讲，其它报道则很奇怪：有人声称经济危机刺激了蛋糕、木制墓碑、伦敦西区音乐剧和《妈妈咪呀》（mamma mia）电影票的销售。

He saw something written in black on the gravestones.

他看见墓碑上有一些黑字写的东西。

Centuries of wind and rain had worn away the inscriptions on the gravestones.

几个世纪的风雨已磨损了墓碑上的碑文.

Holding a torch, Paris walked carefully among the gravestones.

巴利斯手持着火把, 小心翼翼地走在墓碑之间.

Gravestones can be removed, defaced, destroyed or simply ignored.

墓碑可以被移位、表面会破损、会遭到毁坏，或者干脆无人理睬。

…the moss-covered, topsy-turvy gravestones.

长满苔藓、东倒西歪的墓碑

Standing in the Steventon churchyard on a September morning, the dew glistening on the closely mowed grass between the gravestones, I heard the wind whispering in the 900-year-old yew tree that stands at the west end of the church.

9月的清晨，我站在史蒂文顿小村一座教堂的庭院里。墓碑之间新近修剪的草地上，露珠闪烁着光芒，教堂的西边，轻风在九百岁古老紫杉的树叶间悄然私语。