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单词 requiescat
释义

requiescat

/ˌrɛkwɪˈɛskat /
noun
A wish or prayer for the repose of a dead person.He then relates how even fifty years passes, and still no one discovers this murder, triumphantly declaring of Fortunato ‘In pace requiescat,’ ‘May he rest in peace.’...
  • When I go to work each day in the Hugo Black courthouse and see the bust of that judge in the rotunda, I cannot help but say the prayer for Father Coyle that he used as the title of a poem: requiescat in pace.
  • In case I forget to say it later, requiescat in pace.

Origin

Latin, from requiescat in pace (see RIP1).

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