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

• Time away from the past, as if full of elegy written. I hope you cry, just beautiful return.
  时间远离了从前，仿佛写满了悲歌。佳人垂泪，只为盼君归来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• 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。
• South Korean film Time presents us with a Pandora-like gloomy elegy for the fascination and destruction of plastic surgery.
  该片呈现了整容手术对现代社会的致命吸引力和毁灭性打击的两难境地。
• 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 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》
• 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。