carcass: [14] English first acquired this word from Anglo-Norman carcois, and early forms were carcays and carcoys. Spellings similar to modern English carcass begin to emerge in the 16th century, and may be due to reborrowing from French carcasse, to association with the noun case ‘container’, which meant ‘body’ in the 16th century, or to a combination of both. The usual current spelling throughout the English-speaking world is carcass, but British English also uses carcase. The word’s ultimate origin is unknown.
carcass (n.)
late 13c., from Anglo-French carcois, from or influenced by Old French charcois (Modern French carcasse) "trunk of a body, chest, carcass," and Anglo-Latin carcosium "dead body," all of uncertain origin. Not used of humans after c. 1750, except contemptuously. Italian carcassa probably is a French loan word.
实用例句
1. The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.
猎人跪在动物尸体旁边，开始剥皮。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A cluster of vultures crouched on the carcass of a dead buffalo.
一群秃鹫蹲伏在一具野牛的尸体上。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
秃鹰在天空盘旋等着啄食鹿的尸体.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. They found that these bone tools cut the carcass effectively.
他们发现这些骨质工具切割兽肉是挺好用的.
来自辞典例句
5. They divided the deer's carcass, the hunter taking the hinder parts.
