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
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.
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
adjective · C1
Having recently lost someone close to you — a family member or a close friend — because that person has died.
喪親的