Word · Frequency #10470
undertaker
殡仪员；丧事承办人
a person whose business is the management of funerals
- 1.
A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
殡葬承办人；掌管葬礼、埋葬和火葬的人。
殡葬承办人；掌管葬礼、埋葬和火葬的人。；承担者；承办人；企业家；承办丧葬者
In use
The undertaker arranged the funeral according to the family's wishes.
They met the undertaker to discuss the details of the ceremony.
My neighbor is an undertaker in our town.
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。
work as an undertaker
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 an undertaker
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。
Common mistakes
The company hired an undertaker to renovate the office.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。
My uncle is an undertaker who owns three restaurants.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。
Connections
Collocations
- local undertaker
- 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。
- call in an undertaker
- 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。
- licensed undertaker
- 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。
- undertaker's business
- 殡葬业务
- He inherited his father's undertaker's business.他继承了父亲的殡葬业务。
Synonyms
- funeral director
- 负责筹划和主持葬礼的人 · 较正式、中性的称谓；用于泛指操办丧葬事宜的人，不特别强调遗体处理技术。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把逝者“take under”（带到地下）的人，就是承办丧葬的殡仪员。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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