mortuary
mortuary 英 [ˈmɔ:tʃəri] 美 [ˈmɔrtʃueri]
n. 太平间；停尸间 adj. 死的；悲哀的
名词复数:mortuaries
- A mortuary is a room or area, often in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept. You can also use the word mortuary to talk about a funeral home.
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- n. 太平间；停尸间
- adj. 死的；悲哀的
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1. I don't care. I'm feeling militant standing in front of this mortuary.
我不在乎，站在这个停尸间面前，我感觉自己像个斗士一样。
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2. Her eyes were shut. If it was not for the fact you could see her breathing — and the odd flutter of her eyelid — she could indeed have been a body in a mortuary.
她的眼睛是闭着的（译注：可能这位记者的眼睛才是闭着的），如果你没有注意到她的呼吸和她眼睑的振颤，她简直就像一具放在太平间里的死尸。
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3. At the mortuary that morning, the coffin had already been closed.
那天早上在太平间里，棺材已经被盖上了。
- mortuary (adj.) 1510s, "pertaining to death," from Late Latin mortuarius "of the dead," from Latin mortuus "dead" (see mortuary (n.)).
- 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" (from PIE root *mer- "to rub away, harm," also "to die" and forming words referring to death and to beings subject to death). Meaning "place where bodies are kept temporarily" first recorded 1865, a euphemism for earlier deadhouse.
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