swan song

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A final performance or accomplishment, especially one before retirement. idiomatic
    — 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.

词形变化

swan songs plural swansong alternative swan-song alternative

词源

Calque of German Schwanenlied(from Schwan + Lied) or Schwanengesang; from the belief that the mute swan sings before dying.
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