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

An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave.

The purpose of this kind of poem is to express feelings rather than tell a story. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem that reflects on the lives of common people buried in a church cemetery, and on the nature of human mortality. The noun elegy was borrowed in the 16th century from Middle French élégie, from Latin elegīa, from Greek elegeia, from elegos "mournful poem or song."

WORD FAMILY

elegy: elegiac, elegies, elegise, elegist, elegize+/elegiac: elegiacally/elegise: elegising/elegist: elegists/elegize: elegized, elegizes

USAGE EXAMPLES

Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” is about his life in the Rust Belt city of Middletown and also in rural Kentucky.

Seattle Times(Dec 24, 2016)

Vance, “The Hillbilly Elegy”: Liberals befuddled by Trump’s victory turned to Vance’s memoir about his relatives in rural Kentucky and Ohio’s rust belt.

Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016)

Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” about the sufferings and pathologies of the white working class, largely of Scots-Irish descent, in Appalachia and the Rust Belt.

Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016)

n a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

Syn|Hyper

lament

poem, verse form

a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

单词	elegy
释义	elegy (once / 2023 pages) n An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave. The purpose of this kind of poem is to express feelings rather than tell a story. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a poem that reflects on the lives of common people buried in a church cemetery, and on the nature of human mortality. The noun elegy was borrowed in the 16th century from Middle French élégie, from Latin elegīa, from Greek elegeia, from elegos "mournful poem or song." WORD FAMILY elegy: elegiac, elegies, elegise, elegist, elegize+/elegiac: elegiacally/elegise: elegising/elegist: elegists/elegize: elegized, elegizes USAGE EXAMPLES Vance’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” is about his life in the Rust Belt city of Middletown and also in rural Kentucky. Seattle Times(Dec 24, 2016) Vance, “The Hillbilly Elegy”: Liberals befuddled by Trump’s victory turned to Vance’s memoir about his relatives in rural Kentucky and Ohio’s rust belt. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” about the sufferings and pathologies of the white working class, largely of Scots-Irish descent, in Appalachia and the Rust Belt. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) n a mournful poem; a lament for the dead Syn\|Hyper lament poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
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