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- (especially of a work of art) having a pleasing quality of gentle and wistful mournfulness(尤指艺术作品)忧伤的:
haunting and elegiac poems.
令人难以忘怀的伤感诗歌。
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- (of a poetic metre) used for elegies(诗歌的韵律)用于挽歌的。
plural noun
elegiacs
- verses in an elegiac metre挽歌对句诗。
派生词
elegiacally
adverb词源
late 16th cent.: from French élégiaque, or via late Latin, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia (see ELEGY).