elegy: [16] Greek élegos originally signified simply ‘song’ (Aristophanes, for example, used it for the song of a nightingale in his play Birds). It is not clear where it came from, although it has been speculated that the Greeks may have borrowed it from the Phrygians, an Indo- European people of western and central Asia Minor, and that originally it denoted ‘flute song’ (the long-held derivation from Greek e e légein ‘cry woe! woe!’ is not tenable). Later on it came to mean specifically ‘song of mourning’, and its adjective derivative elegeíā passed as a noun via Latin and French into English.
elegy (n.)
1510s, from Middle French elegie, from Latin elegia, from Greek elegeia ode "an elegaic song," from elegeia, fem. of elegeios "elegaic," from elegos "poem or song of lament," later "poem written in elegiac verse," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Phrygian word. Related: Elegiast.
雙語例句
1. Good heavens, what would be more tragic than that elegy!
天哪，還有什么比那首挽歌更悲傷的呢！
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2. The lonely elegy urges, who let profane lonely read the boudoir?
寂寞挽歌催 、 誰讓孤獨褻讀了深閨?
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3. To compose an elegy upon or for.
用挽歌對句體寫的詩歌.
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4. There are playing beautiful elegy.
那里正在演奏華麗的挽歌.
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5. Funeral Elegy, hold a memorial ceremony for youth.