elegiac
adj. 挽歌的,哀悼的,伤感的
Something that is elegiac expresses or shows sadness.
The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality.
那音乐有一种梦幻般的哀伤。
1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy;
2. expressing sorrow often for something past;
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.
Ovid and Horace challenge comparison with the best elegiac and lyric poets of Greece.
奥维德和贺雷西要同希腊最好的挽歌和抒情诗人争一日之长.
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.
At the same time my 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.
Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
她的诗有伤感的情调.