morgue
/mɔːg/noun
1
- a mortuary停尸室。
1.1
- used in similes to refer to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold用于明喻阴森森的地方：
she put us in that draughty morgue of a sitting room.
她把我们放在阴森森又透风的会客室里。
2
- informal a newspaper's collection of miscellaneous information for use in future obituaries〈非正式〉（报社的）撰写讣告用的资料档案。
词源
early 19th cent.: from French， originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.