[每日] valediction (n) 告別
Word of the Day (Monday December 1, 2008)
valediction \val-uh-DIK-shuhn\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/9255b
the action of bidding farewell; a farewell
The playing of taps was a special moment in the ceremony, a
final, haunting valediction for the men who had made the supreme
sacrifice.
-- John Glenn, John Glenn: A Memoir
Few careers have such self-appointed endings, and his speech was
a fine valediction.
-- Howard's dignified end, Daily Telegraph, 37170
At the end, they sobbed farewell to an old friend who gives a
beautiful valediction.
-- Richard Corliss, Martial Masterpiece, Time Asia, 35255
by 1614, from Latin valedicere "bid farewell," from vale,
imperative form of valere "be well" + dicere "to say"
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