elegy

英 [ˈelədʒi]

美 [ˈelədʒi]

n.  挽诗; 挽歌; 哀歌

复数：elegies　

GRE

BNC.24307 / COCA.19616

牛津词典

noun

• 挽诗；挽歌；哀歌
  a poem or song that expresses sadness, especially for sb who has died

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 悲歌;挽歌;挽诗
  Anelegyis a sad poem, often about someone who has died.
  1. ...a touching elegy for a lost friend.
     致亡友的感人挽歌

英英释义

noun

• a mournful poem
  Synonym:lament

双语例句

• I think my review should have made it clearer that this elegy for a casualty of pop culture is a special taste; some of it is fairly glum.
  我觉得我的评论本应澄清，这部关于流行文化牺牲品的悲歌有一种特别的味道；其中一些部分相当阴郁。
• Of these no Elegy.
  这些不需要挽歌。
• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• Afterwards, Ran Yunfei evolved from an elegy poet of rare words to the loudest writer and liberal scholar in Sichuan who advocates the progressive spirit of Hu Shih.
  此后，云飞就从一个言辞稀少的哀歌诗人，变成四川盆地内分贝最高的作家，和一个推崇胡适式的渐进改良的、自由主义知识分子。
• Time away from the past, as if full of elegy written. I hope you cry, just beautiful return.
  时间远离了从前，仿佛写满了悲歌。佳人垂泪，只为盼君归来。
• The literary elegy in the Six Dynasties was not simply a kind of practical poems as it did originally.
  挽歌本是一个实用性的诗歌题材，而在六朝，文人挽歌诗经历了脱离礼仪、又回归礼仪的演变过程。
• It is an "elegy in marble" or some say an expression of a "dream".
  这是一个“大理石挽歌”，抑或如他人所说的一个“梦”的表达。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• He was caught in a dilemma and set down a desperate elegy, in a transient lifetime, for the forerunner.
  而其于进退失据中，以短暂的生命为那个时代的先行者写下了绝望的挽歌。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。