核心畫面

Picture the room after a funeral, and look at who is still standing in it. Bereaved points at them — the people left behind, not the person who has gone. That is the one thing to hold on to, because it is the part most often reverse. The word does not say how those people feel; it says what has happened to them. From that single picture the word does two jobs: it can describe those people, and, with the in front of it, it can simply name them.

可以想成喪禮結束後的那個房間,然後看看還站在裡面的人。bereaved 指的就是他們——被留下來的人,不是離開的人。更多收起可以想成喪禮結束後的那個房間,然後看看還站在裡面的人。bereaved 指的就是他們——被留下來的人,不是離開的人。這一點最容易弄反,值得先記住。這個字不說他們有多難過,只說明他們遇到了什麼事。從這一個畫面,它做兩件事:一是形容這些人,二是前面加上 the,直接指這些人。

From the picture

直接用來指那個人

同樣是那群被留下來的人,只是前面加上 the 之後,這個字從「形容他們」變成「指認他們」。

adjective · C1

The bereaved means the person, or the group of people, whose close friend or family member has just died.

喪親者;遺族

Also in this word

adjective · C1

Having recently lost someone close to you — a family member or a close friend — because that person has died.

喪親的