Presently on the scene appears a solemn mortician .

很快一位面孔严肃的殡仪师就来到了现场。

She’d specifically said to the undertaker that she wanted him buried in blue suitShe’d brought it especially for that occasion, and she was angry that the mortician left him in the same brown suit he’d been wearing when the lightning bolt hit him

她事先特地要求穿寿衣的人给他穿上蓝色的西装,那是她特意为他带来的，令她惊讶的是,穿寿衣的人仍然给他穿着他被雷电击中时穿的棕色西装。

Seeing the logic to this argument, a very reluctant mortician wheeled the coffin out, but then wheeled it right back in a moment later

明白了这位女士的意思,穿寿衣的人很勉强地转动轮子,将棺材升了起来，很快,棺材就滑了回去。

A Research of Mortician Employees’ Practice: Using Central Taiwan Area as an Example

台湾殡葬礼仪人员工作价值观与执业角色自我定位关系之研究-以中部地区为例

||1: A CONCERT by Gustav Leonhardt was not like any other. ||2: He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician , slightly flexing his long, delicate hands. ||3: As he played he sat bolt upright, gaunt and aquiline, unsmiling in his crisp, perfect suit, with his elbows held close to his sides. ||4: No unnecessary gesture, no hint of emotion: senza baldanza, as a composer might have marked it. ||5: He did not have the look of a man on a mission. But he was.

||1:古斯塔夫?莱昂哈特的演奏会与众不同。||2:他带着一种殡仪师的气质慢慢走近他的羽管键琴，轻轻地扭动一下他那纤细修长的双手。||3:在演奏时他的背挺得笔直，瘦削且轮廓分明，穿着一身干净得体的西装而表情严肃，手肘紧靠在身体两侧。||4:没有花俏的手势，没有透露出一点情绪，作曲家可能会把这叫做“缺乏自信”。||5:他看上去不像一个肩负使命的人，但他是的。

But let’s leave the happy thoughts of marriage and get back to death. The French term “mort” gives a deathly meaning to other English words – words like mortal, mortality, mortician and mortuary.

但是让我们先不说婚姻的愉快想法，让我们回到death上来。法语单词mort让其它英语单词具备了死亡意义，像mortal（凡人），mortality（死亡率）,mortician（殡仪业者）和mortuary（停尸房）这些单词。

A CONCERT by Gustav Leonhardt was not like any other. He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician , slightly flexing his long, delicate hands.

古斯塔夫·莱昂哈特的演奏会与众不同。他带着一种殡仪师的气质慢慢走近他的羽管键琴，轻轻地扭动一下他那纤细修长的双手。

Being a mortician , however, can be serious business. A mortician prepares dead people for burial. They also can help plan and organize funerals. The word mortician is a combination of mortuary, a place in which dead bodies are kept, and the suffix –ician, as in physician.

然而作为殡仪业者是一件严肃的事情。殡仪业者为死者下葬。他们还能帮助计划并组织葬礼。Mortician这个单词是由mortuary(停尸房)和ician这个后缀组合而成。

The audience sees a mortician after hours in the morgue, as he mutilates the corpse of a young woman who died in a car crash.

观众看到一个殡仪馆馆员在太平间很长时间，因为一位年轻妇女死于车祸，他在太平间残害妇女的尸体。