elegy
elegy 英 [ˈelədʒi] 美 [ˈɛlədʒi]
n. 挽歌，哀歌
名词复数:elegies
- An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave.
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- n. 挽歌，哀歌
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1. Now I spoke last time about the familiar sense of hesitation, that apology with which Milton had opened the elegy.
我要最后一次说明一下弥尔顿写在挽歌开头的，那句道歉，那种熟悉的犹疑感。
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2. 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。
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3. The pastoral elegy is clearly one of the most stylized and most self-consciously artificial of all of the poetic genres.
田园挽歌明显是所有诗歌类型中,最程式化，最具人工雕琢痕迹的诗种之一。
- elegy (n.) 1510s, from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegia, from Greek elegeia ode "an elegaic song," from elegeia, fem. of elegeios "elegaic," from elegos "poem or song of lament," later "poem written in elegiac verse," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Phrygian word. Related: Elegiast.
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