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An obit is an : a short piece, usually in a newspaper or online, that announces someone’s death and says a little about their life. Obit is informal and — the word staff use at the desk (“Did you file the obit?”). In careful or formal writing, is safer. You will also hear it in “paid obits” (family-paid death notices). It is countable: write an obit, several obits. It is not a verb in ordinary English.
訃聞（口語／新聞室簡稱；正式仍說 obituary）
組成Two honest sources sit together: from Latin obitus “a going down; death,” from obīre “to go down, to die”; and in modern use it is also simply a clipping of obituary.
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- obituaryobit is the short form of this word
原始詞典資料4 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。
obitnoun詞源 1/ˈɒbɪt/
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archaicThe death of a person.
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historicalChristianityA mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
- Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
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A record of a person's death.
obitnoun詞源 2/ˈəʊbɪt/
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An obituary.
- So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.
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。