- 1訃聞（報紙、網站上的生平短文。台灣用「訃聞」；中國大陸較常說「訃告」）
An obituary is a piece of writing, usually in a newspaper or on a news site, that appears after someone has died. It tells the story of their life in a short, respectful way: where they came from, what they did, who they leave, and often when people may say goodbye. Famous people get long obituaries written by the paper; families often pay to put in a shorter notice for someone less well known. Though actually, the tidy line between a paid death notice and a full obituary is messier than dictionaries make it sound — smaller papers mix them, and online you will see both. It is not the speech at the funeral; that speech is a . An obituary is written, public, and meant for people who may hardly have known the person. You also hear it for the whole deaths page. The tone is careful and a bit formal. People sometimes stretch it, a little , to the end of a thing that is not a person: the obituary of a plan, a company, a fashion.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Medieval Latin obituārius, from Latin obitus 'death'.
借自中世紀拉丁文 obituārius，來自 obitus「死亡」。
組成A learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius plus English -ary (‘relating to’). Obituārius is from Latin obitus ‘death’ (also ‘a going toward; the setting of the sun; downfall’), a noun from the participle of obeō ‘to go toward; to die’, from ob- ‘toward’ + eō ‘to go’.
同家族的字
- obita short form, from the same Latin obitus ‘death’; journalists still say ‘the obits’
原始詞典資料5 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。
obituarynoun/əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/
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A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
- [N]ot one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?
- The newspaper came in, as usual, after breakfast. I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry, among the obituary announcements of the day:— "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77."
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A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
- You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"
- Obituary editors are confronted daily with the need to make delicate hermeneutic interpretations of the social meaning of individuals' deaths and to express these powerfully to their readership. […] [I draw] attention to a discrepancy that appears to exist between, on the one hand, the editors' subjective avowals about the openness of the obituary columns and, on the other hand, the objectively highly restricted origins and trajectories of the obituary subjects.
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An announcement or description of the end of something.
- Mouths were agape on the announcement of England's starting lineup, the return of Keira Walsh appearing miraculous 10 days after she left the pitch on a stretcher in agony. Walsh’s World Cup obituaries were written; she was England's most valuable player, irreplaceable.
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historicalA register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.
obituaryadj/əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/
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Relating to obituaries.
- He is the paper's obituary editor.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。