corpse
gb/kˈɔɹps/ us/kˈɔɹps/
B1
英语
~ 4800
holttest, hulla
名词
B1
1
用法模式：
[a/the] corpse
The police discovered a corpse in the abandoned house.
A rendőrség egy holttestet talált az elhagyatott házban.
Flies buzzed around the rotting corpse.
Legyek zümmögtek az oszló holttest körül.
The movie opened with a shot of a corpse floating in the river.
She felt sick at the sight of the corpse.
The soldiers buried the corpses after the battle.
学习者例句
The police found a corpse in the park.
A rendőrség egy holttestet talált a parkban.
A corpse was lying on the road.
Egy holttest feküdt az úton.
They buried the corpse in the ground.
The man saw a corpse in the river.
常见错误：
Learners sometimes confuse 'corpse' with 'carcass', which is usually used for dead animals, not humans.
含义
A dead human body
搭配
find a corpse
|bury a corpse
|police found the corpse
|corpse of a man
|corpse lying on the ground
近义词
body (A more general and neutral term; can refer to living or dead bodies.)
|
cadaver (A formal or technical term, often used in medical or forensic contexts.)
反义词
living person (Refers to someone who is alive, the opposite state of a corpse.)
主题
death
|crime
|medicine
|health
|body
|core_vocabulary
释义
The body of a person who is no longer alive.
The body of a person who has died.
语法
词典原形
corpse
IPA
GB/kˈɔɹps/
US/kˈɔɹps/
音节与重音
corpse （1 个音节）
Stress on 1st syllable (corpse)
词形变化
Noun
- Base: corpse
- Plural: corpses
词族
Forms
corpses
noun
相关表达
corpse bride
1/kˈɔɹps bɹˈaɪd/
fixed phrase
literary
A bride who is dead
A woman who is going to be married but is dead, often used in stories or films.
例句
- The gothic tale tells of a corpse bride who returns from the grave.
- The film 'Corpse Bride' is a dark romantic fantasy.
like a corpse
1/lˈaɪk ə kˈɔɹps/
fixed phrase
Looking or lying like a dead body
Looking very pale, still, and without movement, like someone who is dead.
例句
- He lay there like a corpse, not moving at all.
- After the long race, she was stretched out on the grass like a corpse.