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 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。
• His unique way of thinking and historical background of the late Tang Dynasty created a Elegy.
  他独特的思维方式与时代背景造就了晚唐的一曲哀歌。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• In the first elegy there are two monologues from two different speakers.
  在首挽歌有两个独白，从两个不同的发言者。
• 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》
• 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 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。
• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• 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。
• 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。