Bury就是“埋葬”, hatchet是“斧子”。这个词组是什么意思呢？请看对话：

    A: Are you still having friction with your neighbor?

    B: We are on better terms now. Cooking our food outdoors and sitting down to eat together with our kids helped bury the hatchet — now we say good morning, visit back and forth, and are kind of friendly to each other.

    Note: It is a phrase borrowed from Native American speech. The term comes from an Iroquois ceremony in which war axes or other weapons were literally buried in the ground as a symbol of newly made peace. The Iroquois leaders Deganawidah and Hiawatha convinced the five Indian tribes to stop fighting amongst themselves and form a confederacy. To celebrate the new peace, the Iroquois buried their weapons under the roots of a white pine. An underground river then miraculously washed the weapons away so the tribes could never use them against each other again.