de profundis
副词 adv.
专有名词
英文释义
副词 adv.
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From deep feelings of misery or despair.
— Carts go along the streets; full of stript human corpses, thrown pell-mell; limbs sticking up: --seest thou that cold Hand sticking up, through the heaped embrace of brother corpses, in its yellow paleness, in its cold rigor; the palm opened towards Heaven, as if in dumb prayer, in expostulation de profundis, Take pity on the Sons of Men !
专有名词
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Alternative form of De Profundis (psalm)
— This is the de profundis, one of the great penitential hymns of the Christian Church
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Latin de profundis (“from the depths”).
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Borrowed from Latin de profundis (“from the depths”).
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