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elegiac

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++el·e·gi·ac /ˌeləˈdʒaɪək◂/ adjective literary  ALSAD/UNHAPPYshowing that you feel sad about someone who has died or something that no longer exists 哀悼的;悲伤的 He spoke of her in elegiac tones. 他以悲伤的口吻谈到了她。
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elegiacIts wildness and this elegiac calm met, circled each other, and survived.Given what he had to say, the elegiac essay was the best way to say it.Richard always used to be seen as irresponsible in the first half and elegiac in the second.Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death.Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music.These are haunting and elegiac poems, in which expressions of sorrow and loss are given ceremonious form.His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling.elegiac verseThe mood, however, is consistently elegiac, without the contrasts that might rivet the attention throughout.
el·e·gi·ac adjectiveChineseSyllable
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elegiac
elegiac /ˌeləˈdʒaɪək◂, ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək◂/ adjective literary
showing that you feel sad about someone who has died or something that no longer exists:
    He spoke of her in elegiac tones.


ele·giacBrE /ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/ 🔊NAmE /ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/ 🔊 adjective (formal or literary) expressing sadness, especially about the past or people who have died 挽歌的;哀悼的;伤感的