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

• South Korean film Time presents us with a Pandora-like gloomy elegy for the fascination and destruction of plastic surgery.
  该片呈现了整容手术对现代社会的致命吸引力和毁灭性打击的两难境地。
• That perches in the soul and sings the elegy without the words, and never stope.
  它栖息在灵魂之中，唱著无词的悲歌，永远不会停息。
• Of these no Elegy.
  这些不需要挽歌。
• The elegy can be described as a behavior and a sort of mourning and wield style.
  挽歌是一种行为，又是一种哀祭文体。
• 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。
• What matters to readers, over time, is the power of "Elegy" to console.
  随着岁月的流逝，就是“挽歌”对读者心灵的强大慰藉的重要性。
• When they sing a beautiful elegy to youth, a lament for all the things lost along the way, many were in tears.
  当他们唱起动人的青春挽歌，悼念一路走来错失的所有，许多人都流下了眼泪。
• 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。
• In this sense, his works are the farewell and elegy in the future to those of the past that will soon disappear.
  从这个意义来说，他的这些作品是对即将消失的过去在未来的绝唱与挽歌。
• "A Commemoration on the First Anniversary of Death," or" A Three-Hundred-Year Memorial Elegy," are both good topics.
  周年逝世纪念和三百年祭，一样的好题目。