morgue是英語中的名詞,主要用於描述存放屍體的場所或作為資料室的別稱。作為醫學和法學術語時,指醫療機構或公安機關保存屍體以待檢驗或認領的場所,在美國被稱為morgue,而英國更常用mortuary。該詞也可引申為保存檔案資料的場所,如報社的資料室。
該詞在英式英語中發音為/mɔːɡ/,美式英語為/mɔːrɡ/。在跨語言套用中,葡萄牙語常譯為"necrotério",西班牙語為"depósito de cadáveres",中文則譯為"太平間"或"停屍房"。
基本介紹
- 詞性:名詞
- 英式發音:/mɔːɡ/
- 美式發音:/mɔːrɡ/
- 地區差異:美國常用morgue,英國多用mortuary
- 近義詞:mortuary、funeral parlor
- 其他含義:資料檔案室(引申義)
基本釋義
- 屍體存放場所:指保存屍體以待法醫檢驗、親屬認領或後續處理的專用設施,常見於醫院、殯儀館及法醫機構
- 信息存儲場所:引申為保存檔案資料的空間,多見於新聞機構等需要整理大量資料的場所
地區用法差異
- 美國英語:普遍使用morgue指代停屍房,常見於醫療機構和官方檔案
- 英國英語:主要使用mortuary作為對應辭彙,僅在特定場合使用morgue
特殊場景套用
- 出現於大規模傷亡事件或特殊公共衛生事件時
- 常利用體育館、會議中心等公共場所改造設立臨時停屍間
- 案例:
- 截至2018年,體育中心被改建為臨時停屍間處理突發事件
- 截至2025年,某醫院因冷藏設施不足搭建臨時停屍場所
相關文化概念
- 與死亡相關的近義詞包括corpse(屍體)、cemetery(墓地)、coffin(棺木)等
- 在法語中存在語義延伸,既可指停屍場所,也引申為'驕傲自大,傲慢'的比喻義
典型例句
- The bodies were transferred to the hospital morgue for autopsy.
- Journalists often refer to the newspaper's archives as the morgue.
- Emergency services set up a makeshift morgue at the school gymnasium.
- The state morgue refused to release the body without proper documentation.
- I'm standing here in the morgue. 我站在這裡,太平間裡。
- What do you mean, from the morgue? 你什麼意思,從太平間出來?
- I found him in the morgue. 我在停屍間找到了他。
- “I’m from the morgue, ” the father said. “我從太平間出來,”父親說。
- Andrew went to the morgue to view Wyrazik's body. 安德魯到太平間去查看懷拉茲克的屍體。
- Then I went to check the morgue, and his body was gone. 然後我去查看了一下太平間,他的屍體不見了。
- Simply picking its leaves could send you to the morgue. 只是採摘它的葉子就可以把你送到太平間。
- But I can't sleep. It's like going to sleep in a morgue. 可是我無法入睡,這簡直如同在陳屍所里睡覺一樣。
- In the morgue, most of the killed appeared to be children. 在停屍點,大部分死亡者幾乎都是孩子。
- Can you imagine? What had happened was that I was taken to the morgue. 你能想像得到我在太平間的情況嗎?
- We avoid unnecessary contact and stay together until we reach the morgue . 我們避免不必要的接觸且我們得在一起直達停屍間,明白么?。
- He went down to the basement corridor and followed the arrows to the morgue. 他來到地下室走廊,順著箭頭指示到了太平間。
- Not that long ago, online display advertising seemed to be heading for the morgue. 不久以前,線上顯示廣告似乎已經被業內判了死刑。
- The Izod Center has the atmosphere of a morgue, which is appropriate for an obsolete building. Izod中心有太平間一樣的氣氛,就像一座荒廢的建築一樣。
- Students were kept away when it was used as a temporary morgue for earthquake and tsunami victims. 學校改成了地震及海嘯遇難者的臨時停屍間,學生們不能返校。
- The other nine terrorists were killed by Indian commandos and their bodies remain in the city morgue. 另外九名分子被印度突擊隊隊員斃命,他們的屍體仍擺在市太平間裡。
- But to keep patients healthier and costs down, maybe it's time to send this kind of practice to the morgue. 但是為了使病人更加健康並且花費減少,也許是時候讓這種慣例消失匿跡的時候了。
- As she positioned her head onto the bean-filled pillow, she easily imagined herself lying on a slab in a morgue. 在她把頭枕在裝滿豆子的枕頭上時,她很容易聯想到她正躺在太平間的平板上
- South Korean journalists crowd a Seoul hospital morgue where the body of actor Park Yong-Ha is being held on June 29, 2010. 韓國漢城的記者人群擁擠在一個醫院的太平間裡,演員朴龍河的遺體在2010年6月29日開始就存放在那裡。
- The audience sees a mortician after hours in the morgue, as he mutilates the corpse of a young woman who died in a car crash. 觀眾看到一個殯儀館館員在太平間很長時間,因為一位年輕婦女死於車禍,他在太平間殘害婦女的屍體。
- A woman was helped by relatives as she grieved after identifying a body at a temporary morgue in a sports center in Hanwang. 在設定於漢旺體育中心的臨時停屍間內,一位婦女辨認出了一具屍體之後,在親屬的攙扶下悲痛欲絕
- El Nacional, a newspaper, hit back by displaying prominently on its front page a gruesome picture of bodies piled up in the Caracas morgue. 《國民報》在頭版以一幅加拉加斯太平間堆放屍體的圖片作為有力回擊。
- EARLY on Sunday, nine days after the port of Kesennuma was turned into a watery, blazing morgue, people are trying to get back to work. 星期天一大早,是氣仙沼港成為一片澤國,燃燒的太平間後的第九天,當地人正準備回去上班。

