• n. （美）殯葬業(yè)者；喪事承辦人

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)mors,死亡，死的，詞源同mortal,murder.引申詞義殯葬業(yè)從業(yè)者。

mortician (n.)

1895, American English, coined from mortuary + -ician, as in physician.

An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]

1. Now he was toto wait until morning and get the mortician to bring him a ladder.

現(xiàn)在,他不得不等到天亮了,然后讓墓地的工作人員給他拿個(gè)梯子來(lái).

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