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thanatopsis

/than-uh-top-sis/US // ˌθæn əˈtɒp sɪs //UK // (ˌθænəˈtɒpsɪs) //

比目鱼,比喻说,比喻,比目镜

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a view or contemplation of death.
    • : a poem by William Cullen Bryant.

Examples

  • "Thanatopsis" was the hymn of his meditations among those solitary woods.

  • Between this date and that of the publication of "Thanatopsis" there sweeps an arch of forty-eight years.

  • Of the poems of this class, "Thanatopsis," of which we have already spoken, is one of the best known.

  • Who ever learned "Thanatopsis" on the summit of the Catskills, and afterwards forgot a line of it?

  • The son postpones his expression and leans against a jungle to a fourth encore of the tuneful Thanatopsis.