an urn of [noun]
An urn of flowers decorated the entrance.
一个插满鲜花的大瓮装饰着入口。
瓮；缸
urns — plural of urn
有底座的瓮；大花瓶；金属茶壶或咖啡壶；大壶；骨灰瓮
有底座的瓮
A vase with a footed base.
大花瓶
a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
金属茶壶或咖啡壶
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
大壶
a large pot for making coffee or tea
骨灰瓮
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
墓地；坟墓
Any place of burial; the grave.
形似瓮的中空体,内含苔藓孢子；孢子囊；孢蒴。
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
The museum displays an ancient urn with carved handles on a stone pedestal.
博物馆在石座上展出一个带有雕刻手柄的古代大瓮。
用法提示：urn 作名词，指有底座的大瓮。
She placed fresh flowers in the ceramic urn by the entrance.
她把鲜花放进入口处的陶瓷瓮里。
用法提示：urn 作名词，这里指用作花瓶的陶瓷瓮。
A tall urn filled with dried branches stood in the garden corner.
一个装满干树枝的高大瓮立在花园角落里。
用法提示：urn 作名词，指花园中装饰用的大瓮。
An urn of flowers decorated the entrance.
一个插满鲜花的大瓮装饰着入口。
The seeds were stored in an ancient urn.
种子被储存在一个古瓮里。
urn 是可数名词，复数直接加 -s，通常指有底座或脚的大瓮或缸。
Several urns line the path in front of the temple.
几个大瓮沿着寺庙前的小路摆放。
更常用，侧重插花或陈设；不特别强调底座/支脚，也不用于骨灰瓮。
多指日常储存物品的陶/玻璃广口容器，偏实用，缺少 urn 的装饰性或仪式含义。
词义宽泛、较书面，可指各种容器；单独用不足以体现 urn 的装饰性大瓮之意。
grammar · medium
易错句子She bought a urn for the garden.
正确表达She bought an urn for the garden.
urn 以元音音素 /ɜːrn/ 开头，因此不定冠词要用 an，而不是 a。
grammar · medium
易错句子He works hard to urn money.
正确表达He works hard to earn money.
urn（瓮）和 earn（赚取）发音相同，但本句表示“赚钱”，应使用动词 earn，而不是表示容器的名词 urn。
骨灰瓮
The cremation urn sits on the mantelpiece.
骨灰瓮放在壁炉架上。
咖啡保温壶
Please pour some coffee from the urn.
请从咖啡保温壶里倒些咖啡。
茶水桶
The tea urn kept the water hot all afternoon.
茶水桶让水一整个下午都保持滚烫。
青铜瓮
The museum displays a bronze urn from the Han dynasty.
博物馆展出了一件汉代的青铜瓮。
瓮葬
Urn burial was common in the Bronze Age.
瓮葬在青铜时代很常见。
瓮常用陶瓷材料制成。
瓮通常带有底座或支脚。
骨灰瓮用来盛放火化后的骨灰。
瓮可用于墓葬或纪念场所。
瓮可作纪念逝者的物品。
《希腊古瓮颂》
Keats's poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ends with the much-quoted words: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'
济慈的诗《希腊古瓮颂》以常被引用的名言作结：‘美即是真，真即是美。’
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.