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drive a hearse
“drive a hearse”指驾驶灵车；定冠词 the hearse 指双方都知道的那辆灵车。
He drove the hearse from the hospital to the funeral home.
他开着灵车从医院到殡仪馆。
灵车；柩车
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
灵车；柩车
a vehicle for carrying a coffin or dead body to a funeral or cemetery
He drove the hearse from the hospital to the funeral home.
他开着灵车从医院到殡仪馆。
置于死者棺木或坟墓上的木架或金属架,上覆柩衣；也指教堂中葬礼期间放置棺木的临时华盖,上燃蜡烛。
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
运载棺材到教堂或墓地的车辆；以前由马拉,现在通常是机动车。
a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
坟墓、棺材、墓穴或墓碑。
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
运送死者到墓地的棺架或手推车。
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
The hearse drove slowly through the quiet streets toward the church.
灵车缓缓驶过安静的街道，开往教堂。
Two black hearses waited outside the funeral home.
两辆黑色灵车停在殡仪馆外面。
They placed the flowers on top of the hearse before the procession began.
游行开始前，他们把花放在灵车顶上。
“drive a hearse”指驾驶灵车；定冠词 the hearse 指双方都知道的那辆灵车。
He drove the hearse from the hospital to the funeral home.
他开着灵车从医院到殡仪馆。
“in a hearse”表示在灵车之内，常与 carry、take 等动词搭配，描述运送遗体的方式。
The coffin was taken to the church in a hearse.
棺材是用灵车运到教堂的。
“the hearse”作主语时，常搭配 stop、pull up、arrive 等表示行进或停靠的动词。
The hearse stopped in front of the cemetery gate.
灵车停在公墓门前。
Not this
The hearse car is waiting outside.
Use this
The hearse is waiting outside.
英语中 hearse 本身就指“灵车”，已包含“车”的含义；汉语的“灵车”会让人误加 car，造成冗余。去掉 car 后句子才符合英语表达。
Not this
Two hearse parked in front of the church.
Use this
Two hearses parked in front of the church.
hearse 是可数名词，复数形式为 hearses。数词 two 后必须用复数，加 -s 才能正确表达“两辆灵车”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
马拉灵车
The funeral used a horse-drawn hearse to carry the coffin.
葬礼用一辆马拉灵车运送棺材。
灵车司机
The hearse driver waited patiently outside the church.
灵车司机在教堂外耐心等候。
跟在灵车后面
Mourners followed the hearse on foot to the cemetery.
送葬者步行跟在灵车后面前往墓地。
黑色灵车
A black hearse parked at the entrance of the chapel.
一辆黑色灵车停在教堂入口处。
驾驶灵车
He used to drive a hearse for the local funeral home.
他以前为当地殡仪馆驾驶灵车。
Use hearse naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
拼写里有“hear”，听到哀乐就知道灵车（hearse）到了。
语域：neutral 常见场景：funeral、funeral procession、cemetery 在现代英语中，hearse 通常指灵车（运载棺材的车辆），多用于葬礼或殡仪相关场合，语气中性。旧义（如棺架、柩罩等）现在比较少见，多出现在历史或宗教描述中。
复数形式为 hearses。
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