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obituary

/oh-bich-oo-er-ee/US // oʊˈbɪtʃ uˌɛr i //UK // (əˈbɪtjʊərɪ) //

讣告,讣闻,訃告,遗嘱

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural o·bit·u·ar·ies.

    • : a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or recording a death or deaths: the obituary page of a newspaper.

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Examples

  • The recent passing of a longtime dining favorite went unannounced in a proper obituary.

  • By the end of the weekend, Google searches for her name automatically prompted additional keywords like “death” and “obituary.”

  • This section of the magazine is essentially an obituary column for kitchen technology.

  • In the obituary, Farr described the days his father spent struggling with the virus without the comfort of familiar faces.

  • In Kurt’s New York Times obituary in 2007, Jane’s name gets one mention, as the high school sweetheart he marries and divorces.

  • Over the years, Crawford has been largely silent, speaking out only for an as-told-to obituary to Houston published in Esquire.

  • As far as he is concerned, they're preparing his obituary and he doesn't care to attend the funeral.

  • And a generation of obituary writers have paid tribute to celebrities as well as everyday people.

  • Marilyn Johnson explored the subculture of obituary scribes in her wonderful 2006 book, The Dead Beat.

  • Because in 2014, there really is no such thing as bad publicity…except your own obituary.

  • We read of Turgenev who was arrested and exiled to his distant estates for writing a brief obituary notice of Gogol.

  • Good heavens, Odin thought, what a cold-blooded obituary for any race!

  • I mention the circumstance to shew that this special department of obituary masonry, as all others, was prone to imitations.

  • Did you ever hear an obituary declare a woman to be a dutiful daughter, a kind wife, a faithful mother?

  • According to the Obituary record, he “fairly decorated the choir of the church with most beautiful stone-work cunningly carved.”