mortuaries

英 [ˈmɔːtjʊəriz]

美 [ˈmɔrtʃuˌɛriz]

n.  太平间; 停尸房
mortuary的复数

柯林斯词典

• (医院的)陈尸所，停尸房，太平间
  Amortuaryis a building or a room in a hospital where dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated, or before they are identified or examined.
• 同 funeral home
  Amortuaryis the same as afuneral home.

双语例句

• Plutonium-powered pacemakers still turn up from time to time in mortuaries and hospitals, and a failure to dispose of them properly keeps America's Nuclear Regulatory Commission busy handing out citations to unsuspecting hospitals.
  现在，钚电源起搏器还是时不时的出现在停尸房和医院中，并且使得美国核管理委员忙于忙于处罚那些疏于妥善处理钚电源起搏器的医院。
• Local television aired footage of relief workers in Karachi, the commercial capital of Pakistan, making space in mortuaries.
  当地电视台播放了卡拉奇（巴基斯坦的商业之都）救灾工作人员在太平间腾出空间的镜头。
• In an interview, she claimed that the hospital had three mortuaries where bodies with numbered tags around their necks were stored in a pool of formalin to preserve them before they were dissected.
  在一次采访中，东洋还提到，她所在的医院有三个停尸间，那里的尸体的脖子上都标上数字标签。
• In California, repeat drunk drivers are even made to visit mortuaries to view mutilated corpses so as to impress on them the serious consequences of drunk driving.
  美国加州甚至规定，屡教不改的醉驾者还要参观停尸房，让他们看车祸中死亡者的残破尸体，希望他们从此警醒。