1580s, in reference to lines of verse of a particular construction, from Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegiacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from eleigeia (see elegy). In ancient Greece the verse form was used especially with mournful music. Meaning "pertaining to an elegy or elegies" is from 1640s in English; loosened sense "expressing sorrow, lamenting" is from c. 1800. Related: Elegiacal (1540s, of meter); elegiacally.
双语例句
1. The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality.
那音乐有一种梦幻般的哀伤。
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2. He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.
他把他的感情宣泄在凄惋而庄严的诗句里.
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3. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾,他结束了一生.
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4. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
她的诗有伤感的情调.
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5. Ovid and Horace challenge comparison with the best elegiac and lyric poets of Greece.
