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

• 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。
• 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。
• A Dirge of Love and Beauty
  一曲爱与美的挽歌
• 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。
• 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。
• I feel: Artificial intelligence for is will follow real exactly alike, as person, anger dirge is also pregnant!
  我觉得：人工智能就是要跟真的一模一样，和人一样也有喜怒哀乐！
• 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。
• It's never easy to say goodbye but when the time comes, more Britons are choosing a pop ditty over a mournful dirge.
  说再见从来都不是件容易的事，但当这一刻来临之时，更多的英国人现在倾向于选择流行的歌谣而不是哀伤的挽歌。
• A light song overcomes me like a dirge.
  轻快的歌曲竟似挽歌使我压抑。
• Originated in Han Dynasty and being popular in North and South Dynasties, the tune, named Xinglunan, went through three forms: dirge, ballad and narrative song.
  《行路难》是一支产生于汉代、流行于南北朝的歌调，经历了由乐府挽歌、民间歌谣而演变为说唱曲的发展过程。