“海葬”英语怎么说
摘要: 美国头号恐怖份子本拉登传出遭击毙后火速被海葬,不过,却被回教神职人员抨击做法草率,甚至有侮辱的意味。你知道怎么用英语表达吗?
Muslim cleriCSsaid Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.
Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial — as with many issues within the faith — a wide range of senior Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.
Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.
周一穆斯林神职人员称奥萨马本拉登的海葬违反伊斯兰传统,可能会引发好战分子对美国采取进一步的打击报复行为。
尽管关于葬礼还争论不休,一些争论是围绕宗教信仰方面,许多资深伊斯兰教学者认为海葬是对传统的穆斯兰教葬礼的侮辱,其标准做法是将尸体置于墓穴,头朝向圣地麦加。
他们说海葬也是允许的,但是只能出现在一些特别的场合,如在航行中的船上死亡。
【讲解】
文中出现的“Sea burials”就是“海葬”的意思,“burial”是“埋葬,葬礼”的意思,“burial grounds”是指“墓地”。葬礼有很多种形式,如“cremation”是“火葬”,“inhumation”是“土葬”,还有一些特别的方式,如:tree burial(树葬),boat-coffin burial(船棺葬),celestial burial(天葬)。