undertaker
英['ʌndəteɪkə]
美['ʌndɚtekɚ]
- n. 承担者；承办人；殡仪业者
词态变化
复数: undertakers;
助记提示
1、under + take.
2、身在其中担任、掌握(take, hold)什么；当然，只有身在其中才能去担任、掌管什么东西了。
3、At here, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *enter- "between, among". 另见：understand.
4、undertake => undertaker.
5、The specialized sense emerged from funeral-undertaker.
英文词源
- undertaker (n.)
- c. 1400, "a contractor or projecter of any sort," agent noun from undertake (v.). The specialized sense (1690s) emerged from funeral-undertaker.
双语例句
- 1. The word "undertaker" had long been in common usage.
- undertaker一词早已广泛使用。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Oliver had been sojourning at the undertaker's some three weeks or a month.
- 奥利弗在殡葬承办人那里住了有个把月.
来自辞典例句
- 3. The Don, still sitting at Hagen's desk, inclined his body toward undertaker.
- 堂, 仍坐在哈根的桌子那儿, 把他的身体倾向殡葬者.
来自互联网
- 4. If any one superstar symbolizes WWE, it's the Undertaker.
- 如果你想找出一个能代表WWE的选手, 就找送葬者吧!
来自互联网
- 5. Politeness looks well in every man, except an undertaker.
- 殷勤有礼,会使任何人的外表好看, 惟有包办殡仪者除外.
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