cremate 復習

Fragments of human skull found in supermarket toilet

Fragments of a human skull were found in a toilet outside a supermarket in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward, police said on Saturday.
Police said the skull fragments were from a body that had been cremated and that only the jaw and cheek bones remained. Police believe the skull had been broken into many pieces during the process of cremation.

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今回取り上げるのは、"cremate"という表現です。LDOCEには、"to burn the body of a dead person at a funeral ceremony"という定義がありました。また『ジーニアス英和辞典G4 大修館書店』で調べると、「〈死体〉を火葬する、焼却する」という意味が見つかりました。現在警察は、処理に困った人物が放置したとみて捜査を行っています。(ninetails)