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el·e·gy
e l ji
复数:elegies
词根:elegy
adj.elegiac 挽歌的;哀悼的,哀伤的
n.elegiac 挽歌,哀歌
elegist 挽歌作者
vi.elegize 作哀歌
vt.elegize 以挽歌哀悼,作挽歌祭吊
noun
a poem in elegiac couplets
a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead
something (such as a speech) resembling such a song or poem
a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy
a short pensive musical composition
在古典诗歌中,指哀歌韵律中的一节; 在后来的作品中,“悲伤或哀悼的诗歌,表达悲伤和哀悼的歌曲或诗歌,葬礼歌曲”,始于1510年代,源自法语 elegie,来自拉丁语 elegia,源自希腊语 elegeia ode “哀歌”,来自 elegeia,是 elegeios 的女性形式,意为“哀歌的”,源自 elegos “悼诗或哀歌”,后来指“用哀歌韵律写成的诗歌”,其起源不确定,可能来自弗里吉亚语。在格雷的“教堂墓地哀歌”中,它也有“一首严肃的诗歌,充满忧郁的气氛”的意义,无论是哀悼还是悲伤。相关: Elegiast。
Latin elegia poem in elegiac couplets, from Greek elegeia, elegeion, from elegos song of mourning
The first known use of elegy was in 1501
elephantnoun
any of a family of huge thickset nearly hairless mammals that have the snout lengthened into a trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed into long outward-curving pointed ivory tusks and that include two living forms:
one with large ears that occurs in tropical Africa
one with relatively small ears that occurs in forests of southeastern Asia
elephantineadjective
very big : huge, massive
lacking grace
of or relating to an elephant
elephantiasisnoun
the enormous enlargement of an arm or a leg or of the scrotum that is caused by blocking of the vessels carrying lymph by nematode worms
elephantnoun
any of a family of huge thickset nearly hairless mammals that have the snout lengthened into a trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed into long outward-curving pointed ivory tusks and that include two living forms:
one with large ears that occurs in tropical Africa
one with relatively small ears that occurs in forests of southeastern Asia
elementnoun
one of the four substances air, water, fire, or earth formerly believed to make up the physical universe
plural forces of natureespecially: stormy or cold weather
the state or place natural or suited to a person or thing
at school she was in her element
one of the parts of which something is made up: as
plural the simplest principles of a subject of study
one of the basic individual things that belong to a mathematical set or class called alsomember
any of more than 100 fundamental substances that consist of atoms of only one kind and that cannot be separated by ordinary chemical means into simpler substances
a distinct part of a device used in the composing of print matter
plural the bread and wine used in the sacrament of Communion
elementaladjective
of, relating to, or being an elementespecially: existing as an uncombined chemical element
elementary sense 1
of, relating to, or resembling a force of nature
elegynoun
a poem or song expressing sorrow especially for one who is dead
1 “The book is an indictment of capitalism, and an elegy to those it leaves behind,” Perciasepe wrote in an email.
2 An elegy can be a lament, or a tribute, or just a poem in couplets.
3 Yet it plays like an elegy, a film about endings, mortality and what we leave behind.
4 So the underlying metaphor is unclear: Is it how nostalgia is linked to places, or is it an elegy for the actual structures and neighborhoods that have changed?
5 The music is an elegy, set to the somber minor chords of a string ensemble, without a rhythm track, recognizing intractable problems while Nas quietly insists, “We need a plan to survive.”
6 So it falls to Clemenza to interpret, in words that make spoiling fish an elegy not just for Brasi, but for all the old-country ways gasping in the noose of a new generation’s brutality.
7 There’s a third elegy as well: “The Road,” one of Ms. Harris’s many songs about the turning point of her life, singing with the country songwriter and Byrds member Gram Parsons, who died in 1973.
8 What would already have sounded like an elegy for a lost idyll in Bantock's youth must have seemed almost unbearably nostalgic by the time the Celtic was composed and first performed in the early 1940s.
9 On two other occasions she references “Candle in the Wind,” that masscult elegy that Elton John barely needed to rework to fit the fates of both Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana.
10 Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA The rapid reaction of web tributes can register shock and disorientation more closely than stately print elegies This was before Diana changed the media language.
11 His masterpiece the Great Gatsby is actually an elegy of the "Jazz time".
其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》就是“爵士时代”的一曲挽歌。
12 Now it’s an elegy for a small theater that the coronavirus shut down.
13 Penn Libraries recently acquired the only known surviving copy of a 1723 Franklin broadside, showing an elegy for a Philadelphia poet and printer named Aquila Rose, and topped with a bold skull and crossbones motif.
14 In 1955, not long before Mr. Bernard died, he was visited by Mr. Seeger and delivered an elegy of his own.
15 The result is a novel of Indian magic and modern technology, a parody of New World ambition and an elegy of assimilation.
16 The movie is not just a kind of elegy for the group, but for rock ’n’ roll’s cultural dominance, which ended around a decade before Oasis did.
17 Which makes “Gone Missing” an accidental and indispensable elegy.
18 These words and the tree’s cool shade won’t allow me to think of Anderson’s life work as an elegy to a doomed, wondrous place.
19 As Mockingjay — Part 2 brings the quadrilogy to a close and fans and critics pen elegies and eulogies for a cultural phenomenon, Lawrence finds himself still too close to consider the notion of legacy.
20 When I read an elegy in public, invariably someone will approach me and say, "Yes, I lost someone too."