"swan song" meaning in 英语

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "來自原始印歐語詞根*sengʷʰ-的英語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "來自原始印歐語詞根*swenh₂-的英語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "派生自原始印歐語的英語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "派生自德語的英語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "源自德語的英語仿譯詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語可數名詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語名詞",
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      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "仿譯自德語 Schwanenlied（源自Schwan + Lied）或Schwanengesang，源自疣鼻天鹅不会叫，但会在死前歌唱的说法。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swan songs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain:",
          "text": "\"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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, 出自 The A.V. Club:",
          "text": "[…]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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 22, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, 出自 The Guardian:",
          "text": "Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 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:",
          "text": "[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.”"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "绝唱 （隐退前最后的表演或成就）"
      ],
      "id": "zh-swan_song-en-noun-5TskPwS5",
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-swan song.ogg",
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      "raw_tags": [
        "（澳洲）音频"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "swansong, swan-song"
    },
    {
      "word": "farewellperformance"
    },
    {
      "word": "last hurrah"
    }
  ],
  "word": "swan song"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "來自原始印歐語詞根*sengʷʰ-的英語詞",
    "來自原始印歐語詞根*swenh₂-的英語詞",
    "派生自原始印歐語的英語詞",
    "派生自德語的英語詞",
    "源自德語的英語仿譯詞",
    "英語可數名詞",
    "英語名詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "仿譯自德語 Schwanenlied（源自Schwan + Lied）或Schwanengesang，源自疣鼻天鹅不会叫，但会在死前歌唱的说法。",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swan songs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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):",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Albert Bigelow Paine, The Boys' Life of Mark Twain:",
          "text": "\"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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 9, Gwen Ihnat, “With McCartney III, Paul McCartney offers lessons from a legendary life”, 出自 The A.V. Club:",
          "text": "[…]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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 22, Philip Oltermann, “Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser”, 出自 The Guardian:",
          "text": "Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 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:",
          "text": "[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.”"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "绝唱 （隐退前最后的表演或成就）"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "swansong, swan-song"
    },
    {
      "word": "farewellperformance"
    },
    {
      "word": "last hurrah"
    }
  ],
  "word": "swan song"
}