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

• 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
• 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• 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。
• Afterwards, Ran Yunfei evolved from an elegy poet of rare words to the loudest writer and liberal scholar in Sichuan who advocates the progressive spirit of Hu Shih.
  此后，云飞就从一个言辞稀少的哀歌诗人，变成四川盆地内分贝最高的作家，和一个推崇胡适式的渐进改良的、自由主义知识分子。
• "A Commemoration on the First Anniversary of Death," or" A Three-Hundred-Year Memorial Elegy," are both good topics.
  周年逝世纪念和三百年祭，一样的好题目。
• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。