| 词汇 | dirge |
| 词源 | dirge. In medieval times the memorial song at funeral ser- vices for the dead was based upon the eighth verse of the fifth Psalm, which in English is “Guide, O Lord, my God, my way in Thy sight.” The song was sung in Latin, however, where the line is “Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam.” The first word of the song in Latin was heard so often through the years that it became, slightly altered, dirge, the name of such a funeral song. |
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