charnel house

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At Simonopetra [Monastery] monks pile the bones of brothers in a charnel house.
在這所脩道院中，僧侶們把他們教友的遺骸累積在專門的存放遺骸的房子裡。
In just one hundred spring days, a million Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their fellow Hutu countrymen and a small African country was turned into a charnel house .
在春季裡短短一百多天內(nèi)，數(shù)以百萬(wàn)的盧旺達(dá)圖西族人被他們的死對(duì)頭衚圖族人屠殺，這使得盧旺達(dá)這樣一個(gè)非洲小國(guó)變成了一個(gè)藏骸所。

The Soviet Union after Stalin was, of course, still a decidedly unfree place, but it never again became the charnel house that old Iosif Vissarionivich had constructed.
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To that deep charnel house, where so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company, many great ones in this world, many innocent people, have contributed their bones.
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A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored.