swan song
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仿譯自德語 Schwanenlied[1](源自Schwan + Lied)或Schwanengesang[2],源自疣鼻天鵝不會叫,但會在死前歌唱的說法。
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swan song (複數 swan songs)
- (俗語) 絕唱 (隱退前最後的表演或成就)
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, 章號 VIII, 出自 The French Revolution: A History […], 卷 I (The Bastille), 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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- 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 11月 9, 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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- 2021 7月 22, Philip Oltermann, 「Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser」, 出自 The Guardian[2]:
- Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]
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- 2022 10月 22, 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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參考資料 編輯
- ↑ "swan song", Webster's Third New International Dictionary
- ↑ A Way With Words