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

• 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• 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。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• Female Spiritual Elegy Implied by Means of Places and Articles in the Grass is Singing
  《野草在歌唱》中的场所与物件折射出的女性精神悲歌
• 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》
• 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。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。
• 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。