elegiac

adj.

挽歌的，哀悼的，伤感的；

1. It is elegiac rather than nostalgic.
   比起怀旧更像是哀歌。
2. He died at the end of this wistful and elegiac novel.
   在这本情意绵绵的哀歌式小说的末尾，他结束了一生。
3. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
   她的诗有伤感的情调。
4. He recorded his emotion in elegiac lines of magnificent dignity.
   他把他的感情宣泄在凄惋而庄严的诗句里。

1. This is an abyss, between the sheets, pale white like an elegiac couplet.
   这是深渊，在枕褥之间，挽联般苍白。
2. At the same time my paper point out that the writer is in essence a elegiac poet.
   同时指出，作家本质上是一个挽歌诗人。

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