Elegy



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.哀歌、挽歌
• ［英］ n.哀歌、挽歌 ( a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation)
• ［记］ 参考: dirge ( 挽歌)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -gies)

• Etymology: Latin elegia poem in elegiac couplets, from Greek elegeia, elegeion, from elegos song of mourning
• Date: 1501
• 1. a poem in elegiac couplets
• 2.
  • a. a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead
  • b. something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem
• 3.
  • a. a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy
  • b. a short pensive musical composition

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