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 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• 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。
• Of these no Elegy.
  这些不需要挽歌。
• The life of the earth Silent Elegy& On the subject of Mo Yan's works contain
  无言大地的生命悲歌&浅谈莫言作品的主题蕴含
• 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 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。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• 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。