embalm
embalm 英 [ɪmˈbɑ:m] 美 [ɛmˈbɑm]
vt. 铭记于心；使不朽；防腐；使充满香气
进行时:embalming 过去式:embalmed 过去分词:embalmed 第三人称单数:embalms 名词复数:embalms
- To embalm is to prepare a body for a funeral or burial. Part of a funeral director's job is to embalm the bodies of people who have died.
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- vt. 铭记于心；使不朽；防腐；使充满香气
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1. Myrrh was a spice used to embalm the dead.
没药也是一种香料，抹在死人的身上用来防腐。
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2. Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies are at an exceptionally high risk of leukemia.
用甲醛来保存尸体的殡仪业者，有极高的患白血病的风险。
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3. For better or for worse, McDonald's is no more a chemical laboratory of secret compounds designed to embalm us from the inside than any other processed food maker.
不管如何，麦当劳不再是一个生产秘制防腐剂，并让我们吃进肚子里去的化学实验室，它和其他食品加工企业的做法没有区别。
- embalm (v.) late 14c., embaumen "to apply balm or ointment; to embalm a corpse," from Old French embaumer, earlier embausmer, "preserve (a corpse) with spices," from assimilated form of en- "in" (see en- (1)) + baume "balm" (see balm) + verbal suffix -er. Balm in Middle English also had a specific sense of "aromatic preparation for embalming dead bodies." The -l- was inserted in English 1500s in imitation of Latin. Related: Embalmed; embalming.
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