undertaker 核心詞議:
n. 承擔者;承辦人;殯儀業者
undertaker 基本解釋
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和漢語一樣,英語有大量與死亡有關的委婉語,undertaker就是其中之一。它是由動詞undertake(承擔,接受)加后綴-er構成,在14世紀時指“承辦者”或“承擔者”,沒有具體指明承辦或承擔的工作,到了17世紀開始被用作委婉語,指“喪事承辦人”或“殯儀業者”。這一用法很可能來源于一則笑話所謂undertaker就是“把人帶往地下的人”(a person who takes someone under the ground),但其來龍去脈已經無從稽考了。美國英語用mortician一詞來表示同一個意思。
知識擴展
undertaker 變化形式
復數: undertakers
中文詞源:
undertaker
精選例句
1、 An undertaker had already taken the body to be embalmed.
一位殯儀員已把尸體運去進行防腐處理。
常見考點例句:
- I overtake the undertaker who takes my stake by .
- 我追上阿誰誤拿我賭注的承辦人。
- The undertaker of the interest is the anthropomorphize of economic category only .
- 利益的承擔者只是經濟范疇的人格化。
- When the doctor has signed the passport for paradise , the undertaker 's company sends a coffin .
- 醫生簽了去天國的護照以后,殯儀館便會送來一口棺材。
- The mask looked like the face of a withered old man with stringy white hair , so that I must have looked like an undertaker .
- 面具就像一位面容槁枯,白發稀疏的老人,所以我看上去應該就如同一位送葬者一般吧。
- Speakers cited an undertaker in lesotho who said he was going out of business because of poor coffin sales , as so many people with h. i. v.are staying alive .
- 發言者們引述萊索托的一個殯葬承辦人的話說,像這樣許多人與艾滋病毒都繼續活著,所以棺材的銷售很糟糕,生意要歇業了。