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

• "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。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。
• Of these no Elegy.
  这些不需要挽歌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Elegy of Feminine Intellectual Destiny& On the "The Body not Having Name";
  女性知识分子命运的悲歌&评《没有名字的身体》
• 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。
• 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。