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To embalm a dead body is to treat it with chemicals, oils, or so that it does not decay quickly. Funeral workers do this so relatives can see the person and say goodbye, or so the body can be kept for a time. Ancient Egypt is famous for preserving the dead, though actually modern embalming is not the same craft as making a mummy: today's method uses fluids, not desert air and linen wrapping. The word is specific. Ordinary families may just say the funeral home prepared the body. There is a rare literary stretch — to embalm a memory is to keep it from , as if with perfume — but the meaning you will need first is the body.
防腐處理（處理遺體，防止腐爛；和做成木乃伊不是同一套作法）
組成From Middle English enbawmen, from Middle French embaumer, from Old French embasmer. Built as em- + balm: originally, putting balm (a scented ointment) on the body.
同家族的字
- balmthe scented ointment; embalming first meant putting balm on the body
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
embalmverb/ɪmˈbɑːm/
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To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.
- And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
- `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'
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To preserve.
- There are districts of Canada mainly settled from Paisley and neighbourhood, the hivings off at such seasons as we have referred to, with whose settlement he had not a little to do, and where his memory is embalmed.
- It is very curious to observe how the idea of revenge, inspired by an Egyptian who lived before the time of Christ, is thus, as it were, embalmed in an English family name.
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To perfume or add fragrance to something.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。