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词汇 corpse
释义 corpse
noun[ C ]
uk /kɔːps/ us /kɔːrps/
C2
a dead body, usually of a person: (通常指人的)尸体
The actor had to play a corpse lying in a morgue.
Synonyms
body(PHYSICAL STRUCTURE)
cadaverspecialized
carcass
stiff(BODY)slang
The corpse was in an advanced stage of decomposition.尸体已处于晚期腐烂阶段。
Most of the corpses were badly burned, making identification almost impossible.
The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia.那具尸体在地下保存了近两千年。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Death and dying
all-cause mortality
antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
ghost
have one foot in the graveidiom
macabre
perish
posthumously
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
remains
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff itidiom
toll
corpse
verb[ I or T ]
 slanguk /kɔːps/ us /kɔːrps/
to start laughing in a way you cannot control during a performance, or to make someone else do this; a word used by actors and performers:
The scene was so ludicrous it was hard to play without corpsing.
He had a tendency to corpse in the middle of the sketch.
She started giggling, with that helpless gurgle that has corpsed so many of her fellow actors.
He was able to deliver the most absurd lines straight faced, without corpsing.
It's every broadcaster's nightmare to corpse on air.
The closing credits include out-takes of fluffed lines and corpsing actors.
She plays Lady Britomart Undershaft (a name that nearly corpsed her and her co-star on opening night).
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
act out
am-dram
amateur theater
appearance
blocking
camp
camp it up
chew
enact
improvise
offstage
portrayal
re-enact
recreation
rep
restage
stage business
stage fright
understudy
unperformable
Examples from literature

A sergeant came into the room, breathing quickly, and looked in surprise from the corpse to the inspector. 
For this purpose the people gather round the corpse and carry it outside of the village. 
He eyed the corpse closely, and then proceeded to examine the death wound. 
However that may be, dead bodies might be either buried or burned, provided the deposit of the corpse or the ashes were made outside of the city. 
Then his grasp relaxed, and he fell back a corpse. 

corpse | American Dictionary


corpse
noun[ C ]
us/kɔrps/
a dead body, esp. of a human
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