elegiac

英 [ˌelɪ'dʒaɪək] 美 [ˌelɪ'dʒaɪək]

• adj. 挽歌的；悲伤的
• n. 哀歌
• =elegiacal.

英英释义

Adjective:

1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy;

   "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
   

2. expressing sorrow often for something past;

   "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. It is elegiac rather than nostalgic.
   比起怀旧更像是哀歌。
2. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
   在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾，他结束了一生。
3. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
   她的诗有伤感的情调。
4. He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.
   他把他的感情宣泄在凄惋而庄严的诗句里。

用作名词 (n.)

1. This is an abyss, between the sheets, pale white like an elegiac couplet.
   这是深渊，在枕褥之间，挽联般苍白。
2. At the same time my paper point out that the writer is in essence a elegiac poet.
   同时指出，作家本质上是一个挽歌诗人。

经典引文

• Hast thou no elegiac verse For Brunswick's venerable hearse?

  出自： Sir W. Scott

近反义词

【近义词】

• mournful 悲恸的
• sad 悲哀的
• plaintive 哀伤的
• sorrowful 悲伤的
• lugubrious 悲哀的
• melancholy 忧郁
• triste <法>adj.悲哀的...
• funereal 适合葬礼的
• lyric 抒情的
• melancholic 忧郁的
• nostalgic 怀旧的