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elegiac

/el-i-jahy-uhk, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak/US // ˌɛl ɪˈdʒaɪ ək, -æk, ɪˈli dʒiˌæk //UK // (ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək) //

婉转的,挽歌,挽歌式,婉转

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Also el·e·gi·a·cal.

    • : used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
    • : expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
    • : Classical Prosody. noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an elegiac or distich verse.
    • : a poem in such distichs or verses.

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Examples

  • It doesn’t help that “Joe Bell” works overtime to tug our heartstrings with its swelling, elegiac score or its reliance on tear-jerking tropes, nor that the focus on Joe’s inner turmoil effectively upstages Jadin’s torment.

  • They are variously loud, meditative, dramatic, witty, sexy, searing, and elegiac.

  • “I drive through the streets and see people without hope,” he says in the elegiac narration that ends the film.

  • Six Feet Under ended its six-season run with perhaps the most elegiac, moving final scene a series has ever produced.

  • As David Quammen described in his elegiac The Song of the Dodo, islands are “where species go to die.”

  • But he is one of the best deadline artists in the business, and his series on the dying of his father was unflinching and elegiac.

  • Can any of your readers tell me whence comes the following Sotadic Elegiac poem, and construe it for me?

  • Such were among the great elegiac poets of Rome, who were generally devoted to the delineation of the passion of love.

  • Tibullus, also a famous elegiac poet, was born the same year as Ovid, and was the friend of the poet Horace.

  • On the fall of Napoleon, Béranger took it upon himself to sing the glory of the fallen empire in elegiac strains.

  • Eugenia failed not to observe her appointment the next morning, which was devoted to elegiac poetry.