Rigor mortis

基本解釋

The wedding ceremony is carried out as normal, apart from the minor caveat that the betrothed are struck not with love or lust, but rigor mortis.
婚禮如常進行，除了一個小警告，未婚夫妻相碰不是因爲愛和欲望，而是因爲死後僵直。
Over the next few weeks the pair experimented to overcome the problems of rigor mortis and the effects of gravity on a dead face, until they came up with an answer.
我們沒有將死者的照片與其生前照片聯(lián)系起來?！?在過去幾周裡，這對夫婦做了許多試騐，反複對比如何尅服屍僵和死者臉部重力的影響，最終找到了一種方法。
But this kind of dissembling is pointless; tourism, which is Mexico’s third-largest source of foreign income, after oil and remittances, is already in rigor mortis.
但這種坦誠已毫無意義了；旅遊是墨西哥第三大外滙收入來源，僅次於石油和僑民的國外滙款，早已如同屍僵，毫無生機了。

He had rigor mortis and was pronounced dead at the scene.
FORBES: Magazine Article
The problem with chloroform, as with potassium cyanide and carbon tetrachloride, is that these poisons freeze the butterfly's muscles into an extreme version of rigor mortis, and the wings cannot be spread.
NPR: Excerpt: 'At Large and At Small'

In a dead body, when rigor mortis sets in, the joints and muscles become very stiff.