阴曹地府 meaning in English
dark house
netherworld
Examples
- After ghost month , ghosts have to return to the underworld , and the gates of hell close
鬼月过了，鬼将回到阴曹地府，鬼门也会关上。 - With temples constructed on the mingshan hill by the river bank and many statues of ghosts and devils moulded in the temples . fengdu county is called " a city of devils "
临江的名山上建有一组庙宇，里面塑造很多神鬼像，传说这里是阴曹地府，是人死后灵魂归宿处。 - Vampa took this wild road , which , enclosed between two ridges , and shadowed by the tufted umbrage of the pines , seemed , but for the difficulties of its descent , that path to avernus of which virgil speaks
万帕顺着这条荒僻的路走着，两边都是山岭，山坡上东一簇西一簇地长着松树，但看来这些松树似乎很难于繁殖，这条路倒象是维吉尔所说的通到阴曹地府去的火山口。 - " why , you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard long about midnight when somebody that was wicked has been buried ; and when it s midnight a devil will come , or maybe two or three , but you can t see em , you can only hear something like the wind , or maybe hear em talk ; and when they re taking that feller away , you heave your cat after em and say , devil follow corpse , cat follow devil , warts follow cat , i m done with ye
唉，你拿着死猫等半夜坏蛋被埋时，到坟地去魔鬼都是半夜行动，说不准三两成群，不过你看不见他们，但能听到他们走路的声音，或许还能听到他们的谈话。他们带那坏蛋到阴曹地府时，你往他们后面扔死猫还要念道：鬼跟尸跑，猫跟鬼跑，疣子跟着猫，我和疣子一刀两断了！这样保管什么疣子都治好。 ”