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be an undertaker
这是主语补足语结构，说明某人的职业。
He is an undertaker.
他是殡仪员。
殡仪员；丧事承办人
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殡仪员；丧事承办人
a person whose business is the management of funerals
He is an undertaker.
他是殡仪员。
殡葬承办人；掌管葬礼、埋葬和火葬的人。
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
The undertaker arranged the funeral according to the family's wishes.
殡仪员按照家人的意愿安排了葬礼。
They met the undertaker to discuss the details of the ceremony.
他们会见了殡仪员，讨论仪式的细节。
My neighbor is an undertaker in our town.
我的邻居是我们镇上的一名殡仪员。
这是主语补足语结构，说明某人的职业。
He is an undertaker.
他是殡仪员。
work as 后接职业名词，表示“从事……职业”。
She works as an undertaker in an old town.
她在一座老城当殡仪员。
call 此处意为“请来，召来”，后接服务行业人员名词。
The family called an undertaker immediately.
这家人立刻叫来了殡仪员。
Not this
The company hired an undertaker to renovate the office.
Use this
The company hired a contractor to renovate the office.
在当代英语中，undertaker 专指‘殡仪员、丧事承办人’，并不表示‘承办商/承包商’；表示承包工程或业务的一方应用 contractor。
Not this
My uncle is an undertaker who owns three restaurants.
Use this
My uncle is an entrepreneur who owns three restaurants.
undertaker 的旧义‘企业家’在现代英语中已不常用，现在主要意思是‘殡仪员’；表示创办或经营企业的人应用 entrepreneur。
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当地的殡仪员
The local undertaker arranged the funeral for the family.
当地的殡仪员为这个家庭安排了葬礼。
请殡仪员来
When the old man died, his daughter called in an undertaker.
老人去世后，他的女儿请来了殡仪员。
持牌殡仪员
Make sure you choose a licensed undertaker for the ceremony.
一定要选一位持牌殡仪员来操办仪式。
殡葬业务
He inherited his father's undertaker's business.
他继承了父亲的殡葬业务。
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把逝者“take under”（带到地下）的人，就是承办丧葬的殡仪员。
语域：neutral 常见场景：obituaries、formal documents 在“殡仪员”这个意义上，undertaker 多用于正式或传统语境；现代日常英语中更常用 funeral director 或 mortician。它通常出现在讣告、正式文件或历史叙述中。
These words rhyme with the final -taker of undertaker, all ending with /-eɪkə(r)/. Be careful: undertake (/ˌʌndəˈteɪk/) and tanker (/ˈtæŋkə(r)/) look similar but do not rhyme.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.