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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- funeral ['fjuːnərəl]
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noun
[c]
葬礼
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1.
noun
[c]
葬礼
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- funeral ['fjuːnərəl]
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n
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n
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
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n
(as modifier)
- a funeral service
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n
a procession of people escorting a corpse to burial
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n
[informal]
worry; concern; affair
- that's your funeral
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n
[Etymology]
C14: from Medieval Latin f
u nera lia, from Late Latin fu nera lis (adj), from Latin fu nus funeral
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Examples
- A funeral is not the most obvious place to pick up life insurance clients.
- 葬礼现场可不是一个挑选人寿保险客户的地方。
- The funeral is tomorrow and they will bury the body after the church service.
- 葬礼明天举行，他们会在教堂仪式后埋葬遗体。 → bury
- The funeral was a painful experience.
- 那次追悼会是个痛苦的经历。 → experience
- wedding/funeral procession
- 迎亲/送葬队伍 → procession
- a funeral service → funeral
- that's your funeral → funeral
- preneed funeral arrangements → preneed
- the funeral sentences → sentence
- his joking at the funeral was most untimely → untimely
- 举行国葬
- hold a state funeral for sb. → 国葬
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