dirge

英 [dɜːdʒ]

美 [dɜːrdʒ]

n.  哀歌; 挽歌; 惨兮兮的歌曲(或乐曲)

复数：dirges　

GRE

BNC.33583 / COCA.27151

牛津词典

noun

• 哀歌；挽歌
  a song sung in the past at a funeral or for a dead person
• 惨兮兮的歌曲（或乐曲）
  any song or piece of music that is too slow and sad

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 挽歌;悲歌;哀乐
  Adirgeis a slow, sad song or piece of music. Dirges are sometimes performed at funerals.
  1. ...the mournful dirge, 'Erin's Lament'.
     哀婉的乐曲，《爱尔兰挽歌》

英英释义

noun

• a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
  Synonym:coronachlamentrequiemthrenody

双语例句

• Threnody and Dirge: the World of Female& The Female Image in The Thunderstorm and The Golden Lock Story
  悲歌·挽歌：她们的世界&《雷雨》、《金锁记》女性形象比较
• Chuang Tzu scrying and singing are not secular dirge and eulogy, they are two peaks of sincere feelings, free will, lonely meaning and tragic spirit.
  庄子的歌与哭不是世俗的挽歌与颂词，而是艺术心灵真挚而深刻的绝唱，蕴含着浓厚的诗意情怀、自由意志、孤独意味和悲剧精神。
• 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。
• A Dirge of Love and Beauty
  一曲爱与美的挽歌
• When the winds blew through the holes, the rocks emitted an eerie keening sound, like a dirge of lost souls.
  每当海风吹过这些洞孔，岩石就发出一种可怕而强烈的声音，就象是为遭了难的灵魂唱挽歌。
• Images of tragedy and death struggle for the collective singing of the dirge of radical enlightenment.
  悲剧抗争与死亡意象，为集体性激进启蒙唱响了挽歌。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, she sings a dirge for the family system which is not worthy of a better destiny in old China with her lyric tone of misery and grief, and the feelings of her sad experience.
  同时，她又以凄惋哀伤的抒情笔调以凄凉的身世之感，为老中国的家族制度唱了一曲更好的命运的挽歌。
• In1997, Wrote long poem The Mournful Dirge to the memory of Yuanmingyuan artist Zhou Zhanhong.
  1997年&为纪念圆明园艺术家周瞻弘，作长诗《挽歌》。
• 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。