挽歌 meaning in English
dirge; elegy
Examples
- It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth .
那仿佛是夜神正在那儿咬牙切齿地唱挽歌。 - Good heavens, what would be more tragic than that lament !
天哪，还有什么比那首挽歌更悲伤的呢！ - 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。 - When the winds blew through the holes, the rocks emitted an eerie keening sound, like a dirge of lost souls .
每当海风吹过这些洞孔，岩石就发出一种可怕而强烈的声音，就象是为遭了难的灵魂唱挽歌。 - He wrote unevenly, with anger and enthusiasm, not sure whether he was cheering on a revolution or mourning a collapse .
他的作品有好有坏，怒目而视和热情洋溢兼而有之，连他自己也说不清是为革命喝采呢，还是为大厦倾圮唱挽歌。