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    elegy

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Literature
    el·e·gy /ˈelɪdʒi/ noun (plural elegies) [countable]  ALa sad poem or song, especially about someone who has died 哀歌；哀诗；挽歌；挽诗 → eulogy
    Examples from the Corpus
    elegy• But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise.• Gillian Wearing presents an elegy to one of life's losers.• The sonnet is an emotional elegy, and the tone is mournful.• a funeral elegy• What begins as a satiric novel of ideas ends as a surprisingly moving elegy.• Mind out! elegy A mournful poem.• West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours, yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.• Yet that tiny elegy speaks forward, too, perhaps, to another vanished relatedness, between Martin and his first wife.    Origin elegy (1500-1600) Latin elegia
    el·e·gy nounChineseSyllable
    song, poem or sad a about someone Corpus especially


    elegy
    el‧e‧gy /ˈelədʒi, ˈelɪdʒi/ noun (plural elegies) [countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Latin
     Origin: elegia
    a sad poem or song, especially about someone who has died ⇨ eulogy


    elegyBrE /ˈelədʒi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈelədʒi/ 🔊 noun (
    plural
    elegies    )     a poem or song that expresses sadness, especially for sb who has died 挽诗；挽歌；哀歌