mortuary
英 ['m??tj??r?; -t??-]
美['m?rt?u?ri]
- n. 太平間；停尸間
- adj. 死的；悲哀的
TEM8GRE
詞態變化
復數:?mortuaries;
中文詞源
mortuary 太平間
來自拉丁語mors,死亡，死的，詞源同mortal,murder.-ary,表地方。委婉語。
英文詞源
- mortuary
- mortuary: see mortal
- mortuary (n.)
- early 14c., from Anglo-French mortuarie "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead," from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). Meaning "place where bodies are kept temporarily" first recorded 1865, a euphemism for earlier deadhouse.
- mortuary (adj.)
- 1510s, "pertaining to death," from Late Latin mortuarius "of the dead," from Latin mortuus "dead" (see mortuary (n.)).
雙語例句
- 1. I was never allowed to see her at the mortuary.
- 他們不允許我去停尸房看她.
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- 2. I don't care. I'm feeling militant standing in front of this mortuary.
- 我不在乎, 站在這個停尸間面前,我感覺自己像個斗士一樣.
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- 3. In the mortuary there are many stiffened corpses.
- 停尸房中擺滿了僵冷的尸體.
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- 4. Mortuary grant - in - aid and make offerings to relative pension.
- 喪葬補助金和供養親屬撫恤金等.
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- 5. The focus of this paper is a branch of the jade culture - mortuary jade.
- 本文討論的是玉文化中的一個分支 —— 喪葬玉文化.
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