Cemetery, Graveyard shift, down the road to the graveyard, “a ruined cemetery where human remains had been dug up and exposed.”

Fearing she might attract suspicion during the anti-Hu purge, Ms. Chen volunteered to go to the countryside to help with land reform. There, she discovered that Mao’s earlier experiment with collectivization had been a disaster. Crops had been destroyed, wooded areas replaced with tree stumps. The land, she wrote, was like “a ruined cemetery where human remains had been dug up and exposed.”

"Unless the Swedish government is prepared to put a lot of money into Saab, I think that this is just another step down the road to the graveyard," Bloomberg News quoted Stephen Pope, chief global strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, as saying. 

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noun [C] a place, often beside a church where dead people are buried WordNet: graveyard shift

Meaning #1: the work shift during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.) Synonym: night shift

Meaning #2: workers who work during the night (as midnight to 8 a.m.) Synonym: night shift 現在此blog中含有 Cemetery的字眼的條目不少 http://word-watcher.blogspot.com/search?q=Cemetery%2C

cemetery

(sĕm'ĭ-tĕr'ē)

n., pl. -ies.

A place for burying the dead; a graveyard.

[Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Greek koimētērion, from koimān, to put to sleep.]

n. pl. Cemeteries . A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.