English Dictionary

pay one's last respects

動詞

自動詞

(intransitive) To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.

日本語の意味

故人の遺体や遺骨が納められた場所を訪れ、最後のお別れや哀悼の意を示す行為 / 亡くなった人に対して、最後の敬意を表すために葬儀場や火葬場等を訪れること

To pay one's last respects, townspeople filed quietly past the casket, each leaving a single flower.

町の人々は棺のそばを静かに列を作って通り、それぞれ一輪の花を手向けて故人に最後の別れを告げた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.

Mr. Thompson performed the service, and I preached a sermon to a crowded congregation of friends and mourners, who came together to pay their last respects to the remains of their friend and benefactor

pays one's last respects （ present singular third-person ）

paying one's last respects （ participle present ）

paid one's last respects （ participle past ）

paid one's last respects （ past ）