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

• Of these no Elegy.
  这些不需要挽歌。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。
• This is my elegy.
  这是我的死亡挽歌。
• 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。
• 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。
• Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
  挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
• 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。
• 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》
• 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。
• I think my review should have made it clearer that this elegy for a casualty of pop culture is a special taste; some of it is fairly glum.
  我觉得我的评论本应澄清，这部关于流行文化牺牲品的悲歌有一种特别的味道；其中一些部分相当阴郁。