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单词 obituary
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obituary
noun[C]
uk
/əˈbɪtʃ.ʊə.ri/us
/oʊˈbɪtʃ.u.er.i/
(informalobit,uk/ˈəʊ.bɪt/us/oʊˈbɪt/)
areport,especiallyin anewspaper, that gives thenewsof someone'sdeathanddetailsabouttheirlife
（尤指报纸上的）讣告，讣闻
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Newspapers & magazines: headlines & features
(Definition ofobituaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

obituary| American Dictionary

obituary
noun[C]
us
/oʊˈbɪtʃ·uˌer·i/
(infmlobit,us/oʊˈbɪt/)
anotice,esp. in anewspaper, of a person’sdeath, usually withdetailsabout his or herlife
(Definition ofobituaryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobituary

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The book is divided into sections devoted to interview features, articles on aesthetics, music and politics, and concert reviews, and obituaries of leading figures.
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Her "space-sharing model" of obituaries provides the possibility of conceptualizing relationships between actual and linguistic space.
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Although this may be characteristic of many obituaries, there is a sense of surprise which adds authenticity to their utterance.
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There was no eulogy orobituaryin a national newspaper.
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Adopting this model of life lends to theobituarythe taken-for-granted veracity of conventional narrative.
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Names of deceased entomologists, or scientists from other fields who have contributed to entomology are included, with the citation for their biography orobituary.
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Contemporary obituaries have long influenced not only the scope, but the prose of biographical dictionaries.
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It also demonstrates that anobituaryneed not be as 'grim as death itself,' in the words of the textbook.
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The tone of most media obituaries was critical.
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Anobituarywill appear in a future issue of this journal.
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As a form of paid advertising, obituaries tell us something about newspapers' readership and how readers incorporate newspapers into cultural rituals such as death practices.
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But it is not quite yet time to write the citation bank'sobituary.
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Some of her data give credence to the hypothesis that obituaries are a form of public space whose distribution is controlled by men.
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This ranges impressively from 200,000-year-old fossils to 17th century obituaries and early 20th century correspondence.
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The participants were identified through obituaries in the local press.
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