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

• In the first elegy there are two monologues from two different speakers.
  在首挽歌有两个独白，从两个不同的发言者。
• 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。
• Don't you know the singer? The queen of elegy?
  你不知道那歌手吗？怨曲女王啊？
• 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 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
• 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。
• A romantic elegy on the fate of his mistress.
  哀叹他情人命运的一首浪漫悲歌。
• 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。
• 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。