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.
雙語例句
1. The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality.
那音樂有一種夢幻般的哀傷。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.
他把他的感情宣泄在凄惋而莊嚴(yán)的詩句里.
來自辭典例句
3. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
在這本情意綿綿的哀歌式小說的末尾,他結(jié)束了一生.
來自辭典例句
4. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
她的詩有傷感的情調(diào).
來自辭典例句
5. Ovid and Horace challenge comparison with the best elegiac and lyric poets of Greece.