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。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• 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。
• 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 in the Wildness& On Mauriac s Psychological Realistic Novel The Wildness of Love;
  荒漠里的哀歌&评莫里亚克的心理现实主义小说《爱的荒漠》
• 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。
• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
  类似于挽歌、具有挽歌的特征或适合于挽歌。
• He fled in panic, all the way Elegy.
  他仓皇出逃，一路悲歌。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。