1·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。
2·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。
3·Elegy: a poem composed in elegiac couplets.
挽歌：用挽歌对句体写的诗歌。
4·Cather was the great, elegiac chronicler of the prairies and small towns of the old American west, captured by her just as the coming of railroads changed it forever.
凯瑟是古老的美国西部小镇和草原挽歌的伟大记录者，她赶在它们即将因铁路的出现而永远改变之际把它们记录了下来。
5·Most of early written love poems of the modern poet he Qifang are singing elegiac songs for his own flown loves.
现代诗人何其芳的早期爱情诗作，往往是在为他逝去的爱情吟唱挽歌。