hearse: [14] The ancestor of hearse seems to have been a word in an ancient Italic language meaning ‘wolf’ – Oscan hirpus. The salient feature of wolves being their teeth, the Romans took the word over as hirpex and used it for a ‘large rake, of the sort used for breaking up fields’. It passed via Vulgar Latin *herpica into Old French as herse, and by now had moved another semantic step further away from its original sense ‘wolf’, for, since agricultural harrows in those times were typically toothed triangular frames, the word herse was applied to a triangular frame for holding candles, as used in a church, and particularly as placed over a coffin at funeral services.
This was its meaning when English acquired it, and it only gradually developed via ‘canopy placed over a coffin’ and ‘coffin, bier’ to the modern sense ‘funeral carriage’ (first recorded in the mid-17th century). => rehearse
hearse (n.)
c. 1300 (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), "flat framework for candles, hung over a coffin," from Old French herse, formerly herce "large rake for breaking up soil, harrow; portcullis," also "large chandelier in a church," from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin hirpicem (nominative hirpex) "harrow," a rustic word, from Oscan hirpus "wolf," supposedly in allusion to its teeth. Or the Oscan word may be related to Latin hirsutus "shaggy, bristly."
The funeral display is so called because it resembled a harrow (hearse in its sense of "portcullis" is not attested in English before 15c.). Sense extended to other temporary frameworks built over dead people, then to "vehicle for carrying a dead person to the grave," a sense first recorded 1640s. For spelling, see head (n.).
hearse 英文释义
1. a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle
hearse 双语例句
1. And then Captain Charles sings, "Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by or you will be the next to die."
随后查尔斯船长唱到：“如果你不想下一个死的是你，当灵车走过时绝不要笑。”
来自柯林斯例句
2. The boy remained as dismal as a hearse.
那孩子仍然看上去像口棺材,死气沉沉.
来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
3. It was a big black battered hearse -- like automobile . There were three men in it.
那是一辆破旧不堪的黑色大车,活象一辆柩车. 车里坐着三个人.
来自辞典例句
4. I need a hearse at Vera Smith's house.
我需要一辆灵车,到维拉.史密斯的房子.
来自电影对白
5. Until after hearing hearse to go, just sleep again.
直到听到灵车走了以后, 才又睡下.
来自互联网
hearse 实用场景例句
Until after hearing hearse to go, just sleep again.
直到听到灵车走了以后, 才又睡下.
期刊摘选
Blasts the new born infant's tear . And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
把新生婴儿的啼哭阻挠,新婚的灵车被瘟疫糟蹋.
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His remains upon the hearse ahead.
他的在向前灵车上停留.
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Her hand rested lightly on her husband's coffin as it was taken to a waiting hearse.
她将手轻轻搁在她丈夫的棺材上,走向等候着的灵车.
期刊摘选
Behind the second hearse was a solitary woman walking a pit bull on a leash.
背后的第二灵车是一个孤独的女子走了比特斗牛就一皮带.
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Dance before dead England's hearse.
在英格兰的灵车前跳舞.
期刊摘选
I need a hearse at Vera Smith's house.
我需要一辆灵车,到维拉.史密斯的房子.
电影对白
The boy remained as dismal as a hearse.
那孩子仍然看上去像口棺材,死气沉沉.
英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
And then Captain Charles sings, "Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by or you will be the next to die."
