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

• 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 writer sings an elegy of concuss the spirit returns to bowel for fool's tragedy destiny.
  作者为傻子的悲剧命运唱了一曲荡气回肠的挽歌。
• 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。
• It was for Keats that Shelley had written his elegy, adonais, in1821, in which he seemed to predict his own death.
  雪莱在1821年写的那篇挽歌《阿童尼》是为悼念济慈而写的，但在这诗篇中，他好像也预言了自己的死亡。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。
• 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• 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》