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eulogy

/yoo-luh-jee/US // ˈyu lə dʒi //UK // (ˈjuːlədʒɪ) //

颂词,讴歌,颂歌,悼词

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural eu·lo·gies.

    • : a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person.
    • : high praise or commendation.

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Examples

  • When Deng Jiaxian died in 1986, Yang wrote an emotional eulogy for his friend, who had devoted his life to China’s nuclear defense.

  • While Manchin isn’t yet ready to offer a eulogy for the filibuster, you can see in the West Virginian the same level of frustration with Washington that threatened his decision to seek a second term in 2018.

  • Jordan was often asked to give a speech, a toast, a eulogy — and never disappointed.

  • McClenton, himself a Baptist pastor, mustered the strength to preach his son’s eulogy.

  • Millions of people are dying, but mobile phones are a vehicle to make those people more real, to use these spaces to create eulogies, to record and take pictures.

  • In his eulogy for Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson gave a history lesson to the American people—and to then President George W. Bush.

  • “I will, at any point in my life, other than giving a eulogy, try to make people laugh,” he said.

  • This eulogy was given at Arlington National Cemetery two weeks later.

  • “Any of her teen children with a license were fair game to recruit as well,” her son, Thomas, would say in his eulogy.

  • The eulogy ends before it begins and Thackeray is barely alluded to again, let alone revered.

  • As she made herself comfortable in his deepest chair she heard the girlish shallow voice launch out into a eulogy of the scenery.

  • That greatly excited my rivalry, and I succeeded in finding some reasons for eulogy that she had forgotten.

  • I pulled myself hastily into a more popular strain with a gross eulogy of my opponent's good taste.

  • But just eulogy of the dead is the appropriate duty of those who were the associates and friends of the founder of this school.

  • Bradford in written eulogy ascribes to him "ye tender love & godly care of a true pastor."