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morgue

/mawrg/US // mɔrg //UK // (mɔːɡ) //

停尸房,停尸间,太平间

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
    • : a reference file of old clippings, mats, books, etc., in a newspaper office.
    • : the room containing such a reference file.
    • : any place, as a room or file, where records, information, or objects are kept for unexpected but possible future use.
    • : such records, information, or objects.

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Examples

  • In October 1918, Philadelphia witnessed 2,600 deaths in a single week and 4,500 in the week that followed, leaving a gruesome scene at the city’s only morgue.

  • “If you can keep people out of the hospitals and out of morgues, that is of tremendous value,” he said.

  • This weekend, the state’s National Guard deployed a 36-member team to assist in morgues in El Paso, as the state reported 13,763 new cases on Saturday, according to The Post’s coronavirus tracker.

  • You’ll be well and firmly invested in this book once you get through that, and exhausted, as though you just finished watching a Kubrick movie with a dream sequence set in a full morgue, and there’s more story left.

  • Those who can’t afford to do so end up with a debt to morgues.

  • So far, the mystery man in the morgue has not been identified, and neither has Mr. Douli.

  • In London it is located in the Duveen Gallery where half the extant marbles sit under white light as if in a morgue.

  • Another incident, in January, involved a Kenyan man, Paul Mutora, who woke up in the morgue 15 hours after being pronounced dead.

  • Afterwards, the bodies were taken to the morgue to positively identify them.

  • But five years and a morgue-full of D.O.A. sitcoms later, ABC has found its new modern family.

  • Take all the little fishergirls away from Paris—from the Quartier Latin—and you would find chaos and a morgue!

  • Ward hesitated, as though doubtful about leaving this unusual person alone in the morgue, but finally assented.

  • If I were a woman I would prefer to lie stretched out at the morgue than be the joint possessor of that man's ill-gotten wealth.

  • In the morgue-like silence her silvery voice rang with startling clearness.

  • I went back to the Morgue and made some inquiries of the attendant there.