| 单词 | mortal remains |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortal remains mortal remains n. (a) that which remains of a human body after death; cf. remain n.1 3b; (b) figurative the last vestiges of something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > last remaining traces of something mortal remains1659 lingering1822 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xxiv. 639 His ashes and mortal remaines are deposited with us. 1695 W. Payne Serm. Death of Queen 30 All Regard and Honour is due to her Mortal remains, and they ought like Sacred Reliques to be treated with Respect and Reverence. 1791 A. W. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 38 ‘And these walls,’ said he, ‘where once superstition lurked, and austerity anticipated an earthly purgatory, now tremble over the mortal remains of the beings who reared them!’ 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxxv. 655 The frigate charged with the mortal remains of Napoleon. 1905 Times 5 Jan. 3/7 It is more than probable that before the election campaign is over the mortal remains of the Hungarian revolutionary and patriot Rakoczy the Second will have reached Hungarian soil. 1968 Times 15 Aug. 2/3 They planned to walk with the mortal remains of pirate radio from Trafalgar Square to the Prime Minister's residence. 1984 Smithsonian (Nexis) May 98 Those sunken vessels, I knew, were nothing less than the mortal remains of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, forerunner of the present outfit, deliberately sunk in 1942 to keep them out of Japanese hands. 2009 Daily Tel. 13 Oct. 11/1 The..mortal remains of a French Carmelite nun were carried into Westminster Cathedral. < as lemmas |
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