a mortuary 停尸室 ■used in similes to refer to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold [用于明喻]阴森森的地方 she put us in that draughty morgue of a sitting room. 她把我们放在阴森森又透风的会客室里。
(informal)a newspaper's collection of miscellaneous information for use in future obituaries (非正式)(报社的)撰写讣告用的资料档案
语源
early 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified