swan song
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编辑词源
编辑仿譯自德語 Schwanenlied[1]（源自Schwan + Lied）或Schwanengesang[2]，源自疣鼻天鹅不会叫，但会在死前歌唱的说法。
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编辑swan song (複數 swan songs)
- (俗語) 绝唱 （隐退前最后的表演或成就）
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, 章號 VIII, 出自 The French Revolution: A History […], 第 I (The Bastille) 卷, London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (The Paper Age):
- Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.
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- Template:RQ:London Iron Heel
- 1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain[1]:
- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" […] —a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. "It's my swan-song, my retirement from literature permanently," he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.
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- 2020年11月9日, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, 出自 The A.V. Club:
- […] McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed a swan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.
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- 2022年10月22日, Wendy Ide, 引 Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, 出自 The Guardian[3]:
- [S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”
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编辑参考资料
编辑- ↑ "swan song", Webster's Third New International Dictionary
- ↑ A Way With Words