dirge
dirge 英 [dɜ:dʒ] 美 [dɜrdʒ]
n. 挽歌；哀悼歌
名词复数:dirges
- A dirge is a song of mourning, performed as a memorial to someone who’s died. As you might imagine, a dirge is usually quite sad. Another word with a similar meaning that you might know is “requiem.”
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- n. 挽歌；哀悼歌
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1. It was to be a funeral dirge, a farewell song to a dead friendship.
这将是一首葬礼挽歌，一首为夫去的友谊谱写的告别曲。
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2. And then the next planting season, when they sang the dirge, they would remove as many names of the dead, that equaled as many people that were born.
到了下一次播种的时候，她们也会唱挽歌， 当然她们去掉了很多逝者的名字， 去掉名字的数量等于新生儿出生的数量。
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3. She was in a suburban locality some distance away from London, and I frequently got letters from her inviting me there. But my dread of that dirge kept me from accepting these invitations.
她住在伦敦郊区一个较远的地方，尽管我常收到她的邀请信，但由于我对于这首悼诗的恐惧，使我不敢接受她的邀请。
- dirge (n.) early 13c., dirige (current contracted form is from c. 1400), from Latin dirige "direct!" imperative of dirigere "to direct," probably from antiphon Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam, "Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight," from Psalms v.9, which opened the Matins service in the Office of the Dead. Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c. 1500.
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