dirge 的定义
- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
- any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music: Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.
- a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.
- Ecclesiastical. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung.
dirge 近义词
sad song
更多dirge例句
- Now again they are choosingA fall filled with funeral dirges.
- Typically, a jazz funeral procession begins at a church or home, and musicians join the walking mourners along the route to the cemetery playing slow, sorrowful dirges.
- As he sees it, the long days of illness have turned his life into a tedious, meaningless dirge with nothing to look forward to other than its end.
- The 19th century, though, was a 100-year dirge from one horrid epidemic to another.
- The design team sent out a dirge of mostly camel-colored leggings, leather shorts, tunics, and jackets.
- The funeral dirge for Rockefeller Republicans, blaring since several key Tea Party wins this week, has been playing for decades.
- The media sounded the funeral dirge and the Democrats formed circular firing squads.
- It was the dirge of the British Empire in America, “The World Turned Upside Down.”
- And old Sanders again tapped in the rhythm of a dirge on his parchment-bound cranium.
- Nature seemed to lie stark and stiff and dead, and that accursed craake her dirge.
- She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.
- It certainly looked as if a true prophet was writing that dirge!
- Even the sea birds that circled around them seemed screaming a dirge.