song: [OE] Song comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sanggwaz, a derivative of the same base that produced sing. Its Germanic relatives include German and Danish sang, Dutch zang, and Swedish sång. => sing
song (n.)
Old English sang "voice, song, art of singing; metrical composition adapted for singing, psalm, poem," from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (cognates: Old Norse söngr, Norwegian song, Swedish sång, Old Saxon, Danish, Old Frisian, Old High German, German sang, Middle Dutch sanc, Dutch zang, Gothic saggws), from PIE *songwh-o- "singing, song," from *sengwh- "to sing, make an incantation" (see sing (v.)).
Phrase for a song "for a trifle, for little or nothing" is from "All's Well" III.ii.9 (the identical image, por du son, is in Old French. With a song in (one's) heart "feeling joy" is first attested 1930 in Lorenz Hart's lyric. Song and dance as a form of vaudeville act is attested from 1872; figurative sense of "rigmarole" is from 1895.
中文解释
送〈song〉你一首歌
实用例句
1. That song has stuck in my head for years.
那首歌多年来一直铭记在我心中。来自柯林斯例句
2. I feel as if I should break into song.
我觉得自己应该放声歌唱。来自柯林斯例句
3. You can't have one without the other, as the song says.
就像歌里唱的那样，两者密不可分，不能只取其一。来自柯林斯例句
4. 72,000 pairs of hands clapped in unison to the song.
