elegiac

常见例句

The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It’s worse: they are condescendingly elegiac.
这些故事并不代表愤怒、指责，甚至思想，更糟的是：它们是婉转的挽歌。
"Already in [the first Godzilla], the elegiac quality is being established" -- as in the haunting score by Akira Ifukube.
“早在[第一个哥斯拉]时，这种挽歌的气质已经就此埋下了” 。
This was especially evident in his elegiac and defiant valedictory speech in the House of Commons in 2007, announcing his resignation as prime minister after a decade's service.
这是2007年他在下议院的哀悼并且挑衅的告别辞演讲中尤其明显的表现，他在作为首相十年后宣布辞职。

As with the passage on the falling of the leaves there's a kind of elegiac tone that works to undo, or at least to challenge, our theological certainty.
在描写落叶的段落里,有一种挽歌式的腔调，似乎要抹掉，至少是挑战神学上的确定性。
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The elegiac tone of this final section of the poem should give us some clues to the type of victory over paganism that Christ's birth is actually heralding here.
诗歌最后一部分采用挽歌的口吻意在,告诉我们打败异教后的成功,预示着基督即将诞生。
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This is the question now: is it properly elegiac?
问题是：它是否符合悼亡诗的规范呢？
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This elegiac exchange occurred in the comments to my post, Big Pharma: What Went Wrong?
FORBES: Has Bad Management Destroyed Two Generations Of Drug Research?
Even in our own time this fundamentally elegiac understanding of the Civil War retains a powerful hold.
NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust
In short, this is an elegiac Western, which tends to be the only variety that you see nowadays.
NEWYORKER: The Hi-Lo Country