funeral

funeral — 名詞

1. An event, often with religious elements, that is held to honour and say goodbye

1.名詞A2
釋義

葬禮

埋葬或火化死者的儀式

An event, often with religious elements, that is held to honour and say goodbye to a person who has died. The body of the dead person is then either placed in a grave in the ground or turned into ash by burning.

例句

Élise's grandmother had a small funeral with only close family members present.

Élise 的祖母辦了一場小型葬禮，只有近親在場。

have/attend a funeral — common verb collocations

More than two hundred people came to Adina's funeral to pay their last respects.

超過兩百人來參加 Adina 的葬禮，向她做最後的告別。

come to [someone's] funeral

同義詞
  • burial

    focuses specifically on putting the body into the ground, rather than the full ceremony

  • cremation

    refers to the act of burning the body, not the ceremony itself

  • memorial service

    a ceremony held to remember someone after their death, but without the body present

用法筆記

A funeral is different from a memorial service because the body of the dead person is present at a funeral.

常見錯誤

❌I went to his memorial service.' (when the body was present and buried).
✅I went to his funeral.
💡'memorial service' is held without the body present; 'funeral' is the event with the body.
❌We held a funeral party for her.
✅We held a funeral for her.
💡'funeral' already refers to the ceremony; adding 'party' is confusing.

2. An informal fixed phrase said to someone who is about to make a choice you think

2.名詞B2
釋義

自負後果

警告他人須承擔後果

An informal fixed phrase said to someone who is about to make a choice you think is unwise. It means that the bad outcome will be their problem to face, and you have stopped trying to talk them out of it.

例句

If you want to spend all your savings on a sports car, it's your funeral.

你要是想把所有積蓄都拿來買跑車，後果自負。

fixed phrase: it's [possessive] funeral

Imran told his brother he was making a huge mistake, but his brother just shrugged and said, 'It's my funeral.'

Imran 告訴弟弟他正在犯一個大錯，但他弟弟只是聳聳肩說：「我自己承擔後果。」

同義詞

用法筆記

Only used in the fixed structure "it's [possessive determiner] funeral." The possessive must match the subject of the warning (your, my, his, her, our, their). Never used literally to mean an actual death ceremony.

常見錯誤

❌It's a funeral.' (trying to say the idiom but using the wrong determiner).
✅It's your funeral.
💡the determiner must match the person being warned.
❌It's your death.' (confusing with a literal expression about dying).
✅It's your funeral.
💡the idiom is fixed and does not change.

funeral — 形容詞