- 1停屍間、太平間
A morgue is a place, usually in a hospital or a special building, where dead bodies are kept safely before a funeral or before doctors examine them to find out how the person died. It's a fairly formal or technical word, mostly heard in news, crime shows, or medical contexts, not everyday conversation.
組成From French 'morgue', originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were displayed so people could identify them.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
morguenoun/mɔːɡ/
- 1
archaicA supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
- 2
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
- 3
datedslangThe archive and background information division of a newspaper.
- Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue
- Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.
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