| 词汇 | undertaker |
| 释义 | undertaker noun[ C ] uk /ˈʌn.dəˌteɪ.kər/ us /ˈʌn.dɚˌteɪ.kɚ/(alsofuneral director); (US alsomortician) a person whose job is to prepare dead bodies that are going to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals殡仪员;丧葬承办人 Funerals burial society catafalque closed-casket cortege funeral funeral director funeral home funerary funereally hearse lay morgue mortician mortuary obsequies open-casket send send something off viewing wake undertaker | American Dictionaryundertaker noun[ C ] us/ˈʌn·dərˌteɪ·kər/(alsomortician) a person whose business is to prepare the dead to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals Examples of undertakerundertaker It was an undertaker parlor next door to the theater, and we were supposed to stay in some rooms they had upstairs there. It looks as though the author sees himself as a kind of academic undertaker, devoting himself to the interment of bodies of thought. He is more than an undertaker in that he also takes on the moral blame and the pollution of the death. By contrast, the working class had little need for the undertaker's services, except to provide a coffin and, possibly, transportation. No, he insists, 'phagocytes are the funeral undertakers, not the assassins'. Would undertakers submit to government interference? First, death notification was often carried out by undertakers or other non-related persons, who were not necessarily informed about the exact birth dates of the orphaned children. The various compromises that they reached - requiring certification of deaths and paying benefits directly to undertakers, for example - were not wholly satisfying to any of the constituencies. Such a discharge without the undertaker's agreement is a criminal offence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Naturally a railway company will not want to negotiate with a very large number of authorised undertakers dotted up and down its system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the course of his speech he pointed out that arrangements had been made for the undertakers there to give supplies at reduced rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not see why an authorised undertaker should not have as much protection against undue preference as a trader has against a railway company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He told us that 120 of those undertakers supply three-quarters of the population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no power to require continuous 24-hour working by contractors employed by statutory undertakers or by other highway authorities on their roads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The extent to which this interference must take place will depend, of course, upon the good will of the authorised undertakers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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