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词汇 dirge
释义 dirge
noun[ C ]
uk /dɜːdʒ/ us /dɝːdʒ/
a slow sad song or piece of music, sometimes played because someone has died哀乐;挽歌
Synonym
lamentformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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Britannia
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Singing
Examples from literature

His long improvised dirges will ring for ever in my ears. 
No long line of troops, no sound of dirges, no trappings of woe, marked the funeral of General Hancock. 
Soul-stirring dirges added to the solemn horror of the scene. 
The dirges are supremely beautiful, their language simple and direct, but perfect in descriptive touches and in the cadence of the reiterated burden. 
Wailing an endless dirge, the dismal notes prolong. 

Examples of dirge


dirge
Harmonies remain triadic and mostly minor, becoming dirge-like at several points in the score.
It was a funeral dirge over the whole of his party's philosophy and programme.
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There is a dirge in my heart, in fact!
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All we heard was a dirge of despair and depression about the future.
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The song has ended but the dirge lingers on.
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It seemed to me that his observations were rather in the nature of a funeral dirge.
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It often seems like a rather dismal dirge unrelieved by any acknowledgement of the dramatic improvements in standards of living even over the last generation.
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That rather triumphant, lyrical song which they sang is rapidly becoming a dirge.
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Most of the speeches have sounded like dirges or laments for a dead, or at least dying, industry.
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That is what it is: the death dirge of the old system of financing local government.
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It is not true to say that a dirge should be the appropriate theme song of agriculture in every area in this country.
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Instead, there was a dirge on who would vote for the proposal from the area health authority.
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Is there only a dirge after that?
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The song is to be sung con spirito (as a triumphant anthem, not as a dirge).
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Rows of candles arranged along the floor burn as a bagpiper plays a dirge.
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