mortician
英 [mɔːˈtɪʃ.ən]
美 [mɔːrˈtɪʃ.ən]
为了记忆单词“mortician”,可以将其分解为三个部分:“mort”加上“-ic”加上“-ian”。这里的“mort”可以联想到“mortal”,意味着与死亡相关。将“-ic”想象为形容词后缀,表示某物或某人的特性。最后,“-ian”通常表示从事某职业的人。
记忆方法:想象一个专门处理与死亡相关事务的人(mortician),他们像“mortal”(凡人)一样从事着与死亡密切相关的职业。这样,“mortician”就与从事葬礼或尸体处理职业的人联系起来了。
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mortician 殡葬业从业者来自拉丁语mors,死亡,死的,词源同mortal,murder.引申词义殡葬业从业者。
- mortician (n.)
- 1895, American English, coined from mortuary + -ician, as in physician.
An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]
- 1. Now he was toto wait until morning and get the mortician to bring him a ladder.
- 现在,他不得不等到天亮了,然后让墓地的工作人员给他拿个梯子来.