英语词汇“elegies”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	elegies
释义	Trends of elegies View usage for: elegies in British English plural noun elegy elegy in British English (ˈɛlɪdʒɪ) nounWord forms: plural -gies 1. a mournful or plaintive poem or song, esp a lament for the dead 2. poetry or a poem written in elegiac couplets or stanzas ▶ USAGE Avoid confusion with eulogy Word origin C16: via French and Latin from Greek elegeia, from elegos lament sung to flute accompaniment Examples of 'elegies' in a sentence elegies He jokes that his elegies bring the dead back to life. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Early elegies alternate an almost marmoreal calm with twig-in-the-wind helplessness. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) She wrote some fine elegies, which deserve a place within the present memorial service repertoire. Times, Sunday Times (2018) These are beautifully constructed elegies for the elements of the era that were most noble and most doomed. Globe and Mail (2003) If 'this knowledge' occurs in the immediate aftermath of loss, other elegies are set in the later, reckoning phase. The Times Literary Supplement (2018) Even literary staples, such as elegies for dead parents, in his hands are never merely set-pieces. The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
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Trends ofelegies