morgue

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n. 陈尸所 [医] 停尸室

发音

UK /mɔːɡ/
其它 /mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
US /moɹɡ/
US /mo̞ɹɡ/

词形变化

morgues 复数 morgues

教材释义与例句

名词

陈尸所；资料室，资料档案

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

    古体
  2. 2.

    A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

    停尸房

    太平间

    殓房

    死人厝

  3. 3.

    The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

mortuary dead room

上位词 2

building edifice

下位词 5

crematorium crematory funeral home funeral parlor funeral parlour

词源

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

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