Word · Frequency #10470
undertaker
殡仪员；丧事承办人
核心释义
a person whose business is the management of funerals
- 1.
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.
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
用法In use
The undertaker arranged the funeral according to the family's wishes.
用法提示：这里 undertaker 作主语，指承办葬礼事务的人。
They met the undertaker to discuss the details of the ceremony.
用法提示：这里 undertaker 作宾语，表示殡葬承办人。
My neighbor is an undertaker in our town.
用法提示：这里 undertaker 作表语，说明职业。
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.
相关词与表达Connections
搭配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。
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
把逝者“take under”（带到地下）的人，就是承办丧葬的殡仪员。
语境与语域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。
发音与拼写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.
用法优先级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。
一起学习词形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。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.