挽诗 meaning in English
elegy
Examples
- A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person
挽歌，挽诗专门为悼念某一死者所写的诗或歌 - Every time a man died , or a woman died , or a child died , she would be on hand with her " tribute " before he was cold
每当一个男人死了，或是一个女人死了，或是一个孩子死了，尸体未寒，她便已把“挽诗”送来了。 - Poor emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive , and it didn t seem right that there warn t nobody to make some about her now she was gone ; so i tried to sweat out a verse or two myself , but i couldn t seem to make it go somehow
可怜的哀美琳活着的时候曾为所有的死者写下诗篇，如今她走了，却没有什么人为了她写诗。这也许是件憾事吧。因此，我曾绞尽脑汁，要为她写一首挽诗，可是，不知道怎么搞的，诗总是写不成。 - And upon my going into will ' s i found their discourse was gone off from the death of the french king to that of monsieur boileau , racine , corneille , and several other poets , whom they regretted on this occasion , as persons who would have obliged the world with very noble elegies on the death of so great a prince , and so eminent a patron of learning
等我走进维尔咖啡店，我听到的议论已经从法国国王之死转到几位诗人了，就是波瓦罗先生、拉辛先生、高乃依先生和另外几位，人们遗憾他们早死了，认为否则他们会写出极好的挽诗来哀悼这位伟大的君王和提倡学术的恩主。