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单词 elegize
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Definition of elegize in English:

elegize

(British elegise)
verb ˈɛlɪdʒʌɪzˈeləˌjīz
[no object]
  • Write in a wistfully mournful way.

    but none, elegized the press, could take his place
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Aerial shots of suburban homes and snow-tired pickups paid for with postwar Spam elegize what's soon to be lost.
    • Berryman is therefore appealed to as the figure whose achievements in elegising his fellow American poets provide both model and reproof to his counterparts in Australia.
    • Years afterward he would elegize the obsolescence of the aircraft.
    • He makes veiled allusions to Christianity as well as to Chaldaean theurgy, and elegizes over the silence of the oracles.
    • Her son, Major Robert Gregory, he elegized as embodiment of the artist as man of action.
    • People have sometimes read its black forms as icons for the penis and testicles of a bull, and, thus, the work as elegizing the loss of virility.
    • But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy?
    • A European-American habit of history is to destroy things and then to elegize them, like the memorial to the last passenger pigeon.

Derivatives

  • elegist

  • noun ˈɛlɪdʒɪstˈɛlədʒəst
    • A writer of an elegy or elegies.

      he writes as an elegist for a lost England
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although all of the pastoral elegists know the conventions established by their forefathers and follow them with precision, each must pretend at the beginning that he does not know the end.
      • The history of pastoral elegy reveals a faith in the performative value of the poet's utterance that motivates prior elegists to sing.
      • The interwoven connections between the family, the Duke of Buckingham and his various elegists, for example, are particularly persuasively presented.
 
 

Definition of elegize in US English:

elegize

(British elegise)
verbˈeləˌjīz
[no object]
  • Write in a wistfully mournful way about someone or something.

    but none, elegized the press, could take his place
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Years afterward he would elegize the obsolescence of the aircraft.
    • Aerial shots of suburban homes and snow-tired pickups paid for with postwar Spam elegize what's soon to be lost.
    • Berryman is therefore appealed to as the figure whose achievements in elegising his fellow American poets provide both model and reproof to his counterparts in Australia.
    • But is it possible to elegize the Gutenberg Age even as we blast into the Gutenberg Galaxy?
    • He makes veiled allusions to Christianity as well as to Chaldaean theurgy, and elegizes over the silence of the oracles.
    • Her son, Major Robert Gregory, he elegized as embodiment of the artist as man of action.
    • People have sometimes read its black forms as icons for the penis and testicles of a bull, and, thus, the work as elegizing the loss of virility.
    • A European-American habit of history is to destroy things and then to elegize them, like the memorial to the last passenger pigeon.
 
 
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