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there + be + [quantifier] + mourner(s)
there be 句式表示存在，mourner 常用复数，并可加 many、hundreds of 等数量词。
There were many mourners outside the church.
教堂外有许多哀悼者。
哀悼者；悲伤者
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哀悼者；悲伤者
a person who is feeling grief, especially because someone has died
There were many mourners outside the church.
教堂外有许多哀悼者。
充满或表达悲伤或悲哀的人,尤指因死亡而哀伤者；哀悼者。
Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
参加葬礼或以其他方式参与丧亲仪式的人。
A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
在某些文化中,受雇参加丧葬仪式的人,有时通过作出显眼和/或惯例的悲伤表现；雇来的哀悼者。
In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.
属于相关的蒂蒂科和霸鹟科的若干种亚鸣禽中的任何一种。
Any of a number of suboscine birds in the related familes Tityridae and Tyrannidae.
The mourners gathered quietly around the grave.
哀悼者们静静地聚集在坟墓周围。
She was a mourner at her friend's funeral.
她是她朋友葬礼上的一位哀悼者。
Each mourner placed a flower on the coffin.
每位哀悼者都在棺材上放了一朵花。
there be 句式表示存在，mourner 常用复数，并可加 many、hundreds of 等数量词。
There were many mourners outside the church.
教堂外有许多哀悼者。
one of the 后须接复数名词（如 mourners），表示“…之一”。
She was one of the mourners at the funeral.
她是葬礼上的哀悼者之一。
Not this
She mourner her father's death.
Use this
She mourned her father's death.
mourner 是名词，意为“哀悼者”，不能作谓语。这里需要动词作谓语，应使用 mourn 的过去式 mourned。
Not this
Many mourner attended the funeral.
Use this
Many mourners attended the funeral.
mourner 是可数名词，复数形式是 mourners。在 many 后必须用复数形式，汉语名词没有复数变化，所以容易漏掉 -s。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
主要送葬者；丧主
The chief mourner led the funeral procession.
主要送葬者走在送葬队伍的最前面。
职业哭丧人
In some ancient cultures, families hired professional mourners to weep at funerals.
在一些古老的文化中，家人会雇职业哭丧者在葬礼上哭泣。
哀悼者聚集
Thousands of mourners gathered in the square to remember the victims.
数千名哀悼者聚集在广场上悼念遇难者。
安慰哀悼者
Friends and relatives came to comfort the mourners after the burial.
葬礼后，亲友们前来安慰哀悼者。
一大群哀悼者
A crowd of mourners lined the street as the hearse passed.
一大群哀悼者站在街道两旁，目送灵车经过。
主要哀悼者
The widow was the chief mourner at the funeral.
那位遗孀是葬礼上的主要哀悼者。
职业哀悼者
In ancient Rome, families sometimes hired professional mourners to lament at funerals.
在古罗马，家族有时会雇请职业哀悼者在葬礼上哭丧。
忏悔座
She spent an hour at the mourner's bench, praying for forgiveness.
她在忏悔座上待了一小时，祈求宽恕。
哀悼者行走在大街上。
The mourners walked slowly behind the coffin.
哀悼者缓缓地走在棺材后面。
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把 mourner 拆成 mourn（哀悼）+ er（人）：那个哀悼的人，就是 mourner。
语域：neutral 常见场景：funeral、obituary、news report 该词为中性表达，多用于葬礼、讣告或新闻报道等场合，指哀悼或送葬的人。在日常口语中不算特别常见，但也不显生硬。
None of these words rhymes exactly with mourner /ˈmɒːnə/ in the pronunciations given here. corner (ˈkɔːnə) has the same -ner ending and silent r, but uses /ɔː/ instead of /ɒː/. four (fɔː) shares the 'our' spelling, but has no /nə/ ending. learner, winner, and runner all end in /nə/ (spelled -ner), but their vowel sounds differ: /ɜː/, /ɪ/, /ʌ/. morning (ˈmɔːnɪŋ) has a similar initial sound /mɔːn/ to mourner's /mɒːn/, but ends with /ɪŋ/, not /nə/.
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