a room under the floor of a church, used especially in the past as a place for burying people (尤指旧时做墓穴用的)教堂地下室 Nelson’s final resting place was in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral. 纳尔逊最后的安息处是在圣保罗大教堂的地下墓穴。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’.