释义 |
undertaker/ˈʌndəteikə/n. 1 a person whose business is to make arrangements for funerals 丧事承办人,殡仪员 2 /also 亦作 -ˈteikə/ a person who undertakes to do something 承办者,承担者 3 hist. an influential person in 17th-century England who undertook to procure particular legislation, esp. to obtain supplies from the House of Commons if the king would grant some concession [史义] (指 17 世纪英国只要国王做出某些让步)能使下院通过特别立法(尤指拨款)的有影响力的人物 |