| 释义 |
Ich dien|ɪçˈdiːn|
[a. G. ich dien = I serve.]
Used as the motto of the Prince of Wales, adopted with the crest of ostrich feathers after the battle of Crécy (1346), from John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, who was killed in the battle. So concr. for the Prince of Wales himself, and allusively.
Spelt ich diene on the tomb of the Black Prince, Edward Prince of Wales, at the time of his burial at Canterbury in 1376.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot in Poetical Works (1843) II. 5 Ic dien serueth for erstrych fether. 1545in Catal. Seals Dept. MSS. Brit. Mus. (1892) II. 232 Henry VIII. Ich Dien. 1677F. Sandford Geneal. Hist. Kings Eng. iii. iv. 182 Prince Edward..deplumed his Casque of those Ostrich Feathers, which..became his Cognizance,..with Scroles containing this Motto, ich dien, that is, I serve. 1780H. Walpole Let. 23 Sept. (1858) VII. 441 If Ich Dien does not wear one, he at last,..boudes those who voted against the Admiral. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 170 That pale fragment of a Prince up there, whose motto is Ich dien. a1930― Phoenix (1936) 588 The whole world screams Ich dien. |