Hearse
[hɜːs] or [hɝs]
解释:
(noun.) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle.
校对:罗伯特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A hind in the year of its age.
(n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
录入:尼科尔
解释:
n. a carriage in which the dead are conveyed to the grave: (orig.) a triangular framework for holding candles at a church service and esp. at a funeral service.—v.t. to put on or in a hearse.—n. Hearse′-cloth a pall for a corpse laid on a bier.—adj. Hearse′-like suitable to a funeral mournful.
丹尼尔编辑
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home, and failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner. It also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow. If a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome.
爱德华整理
娱乐性解释：
n. Death's baby-carriage.
整理:劳埃德
娱乐性解释：
Seen on the dead.
A handsome vehicle in which the man who has always been a tail-ender is finally permitted to lead the procession.
校对:维多利亚
例句:
- At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Standing hard by the building was a plain hearse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- We reached Venice at eight in the evening, and entered a hearse belonging to the Grand Hotel d'Europe. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- So up we went to the second story, when we came to Richard's name in great white letters on a hearse-like panel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- That gig seems to me more funereal than a hearse. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- On their first introduction, omnibuses were considered absurdities, and were ridiculed as painted hearses. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
伯特校对