英语词汇“corpse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

corpse

/kɔːps

noun

A dead body, especially of a human being rather than an animal: the corpse of a man lay there figurative he believed that fascism would revive the corpse of Europe...

Then for the next 8 hours during the second stage I evacuated corpses or dead bodies.
Lisa Morgan, 30, a legal secretary from Chatham, Kent, clung to a tree for six hours, surrounded by human corpses and dead animals.
He emphasizes that their dead bodies, their corpses, will fall in the wilderness.

Synonyms

dead body, body, cadaver, carcass, skeleton;

remains, relics

informal stiff

archaic corse

verb [no object] theatrical slang

1Spoil a piece of acting by forgetting one’s lines or laughing uncontrollably: Peter just can’t stop himself corpsing when he is on stage...

We finished the dress rehearsal an hour before we let the audience in, and were still finding scenes we could not get through without corpsing (actors laughing at each other on stage) or things that needed to be re-staged for props to work.
That's why everyone has a story about a Wise Man corpsing at a key moment, or a showboating Shepherd hogging the limelight.
You want a channel full of in-jokes and presenters corpsing on air?

1.1 [with object] Cause (an actor) to forget their lines and start laughing: one singer ad libbed and corpsed his colleagues on stage

Origin

Middle English (denoting the living body of a person or animal): alteration of corse by association with Latin corpus, a change which also took place in French (Old French cors becoming corps). The p was originally silent, as in French; the final e was rare before the 19th century, but now distinguishes corpse from corps.

At one time corpses did not have to be dead. Until the early 18th century a corpse (from Latin corpus ‘body’) could be the living body of a person or animal, as in ‘We often see…a fair and beautiful corpse but a foul and ugly mind’ (Thomas Walkington, 1607). You would need to specify ‘a dead corpse’ or some similar expression if you were talking about a dead body. In time, you could simply say ‘a corpse’ and people would assume that you meant a dead person. The p used to be silent and the final e was rare before the 19th century. In fact, corpse and corps (late 16th century), ‘a division of an army’ are basically the same word. Latin corpus has given us several words, among them corporation (Late Middle English), corpulent (Late Middle English) or ‘fat’, corset (Middle English) a ‘little body’, and incorporate (Late Middle English). A corporal (mid 16th century) is in charge of a ‘body’ of troops.

单词	corpse
释义	corpse /kɔːps / noun A dead body, especially of a human being rather than an animal: the corpse of a man lay there figurative he believed that fascism would revive the corpse of Europe... Then for the next 8 hours during the second stage I evacuated corpses or dead bodies. Lisa Morgan, 30, a legal secretary from Chatham, Kent, clung to a tree for six hours, surrounded by human corpses and dead animals. He emphasizes that their dead bodies, their corpses, will fall in the wilderness. Synonyms dead body, body, cadaver, carcass, skeleton; remains, relics informal stiff archaic corse verb [no object] theatrical slang 1Spoil a piece of acting by forgetting one’s lines or laughing uncontrollably: Peter just can’t stop himself corpsing when he is on stage... We finished the dress rehearsal an hour before we let the audience in, and were still finding scenes we could not get through without corpsing (actors laughing at each other on stage) or things that needed to be re-staged for props to work. That's why everyone has a story about a Wise Man corpsing at a key moment, or a showboating Shepherd hogging the limelight. You want a channel full of in-jokes and presenters corpsing on air? 1.1 [with object] Cause (an actor) to forget their lines and start laughing: one singer ad libbed and corpsed his colleagues on stage Origin Middle English (denoting the living body of a person or animal): alteration of corse by association with Latin corpus, a change which also took place in French (Old French cors becoming corps). The p was originally silent, as in French; the final e was rare before the 19th century, but now distinguishes corpse from corps. At one time corpses did not have to be dead. Until the early 18th century a corpse (from Latin corpus ‘body’) could be the living body of a person or animal, as in ‘We often see…a fair and beautiful corpse but a foul and ugly mind’ (Thomas Walkington, 1607). You would need to specify ‘a dead corpse’ or some similar expression if you were talking about a dead body. In time, you could simply say ‘a corpse’ and people would assume that you meant a dead person. The p used to be silent and the final e was rare before the 19th century. In fact, corpse and corps (late 16th century), ‘a division of an army’ are basically the same word. Latin corpus has given us several words, among them corporation (Late Middle English), corpulent (Late Middle English) or ‘fat’, corset (Middle English) a ‘little body’, and incorporate (Late Middle English). A corporal (mid 16th century) is in charge of a ‘body’ of troops.
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