morgue
noun /mɔːɡ/
/mɔːrɡ/
- a building in which dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated (= burned)
停尸房;太平间 - They found his body lying in the city morgue.
他们发现他的尸体躺在市太平间。 - This place is like a morgue!
这地方死气沉沉的
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc2, Buildingsc2- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
- They found his body lying in the city morgue.
- a place where dead bodies that have been found are kept until they can be identified
(供辨认尸首的)陈尸所
词源early 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.