dirge

英 [dɜːdʒ] 美[dɝdʒ]

GRE畅通词汇

复数: dirges;

1. direct => dirge.

dirge 哀歌

来自拉丁语dirige, 指导，导引，词源同direct. 用于哀歌的导引，Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight.

1. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

dirge: dirge: [16] Dirge is an anglicization of Latin dīrige, the imperative singular of dīrigere ‘guide’ (source of English direct). It is the first word in the Latin version of Psalm 5, verse 8: Dirige, Domīne, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam ‘Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight’ (the Authorized Version expands this to ‘Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of my enemies; make thy way straight before thy face’). This formed an antiphon in the Office of the Dead (the funeral service) and hence came to be associated with songs of mourning, and with gloomy singing in general.
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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 Psalm v:9, which opened the Matins service in the Office of the Dead. Transferred sense of "any funeral song" is from c. 1500.

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.

But the old who seems to have in my ear, like a dirge soft, lingering.: 但好像有谁来老在我耳边轻吟, 似一首轻轻的哀乐, 挥之不去.

The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.: 听了一会儿后这个陌生人也跟著唱起了悲哀的挽歌.

Time passes like a dirge, white dye alone across the face of the ear.: 岁月如挽歌般逝去, 划过脸庞独独染白那耳畔的青丝.