形容詞 elegiac:

1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
2. expressing sorrow often for something past

1. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
   她的詩有傷感的情調(diào)。

el.e.gi.ac

adj.（形容詞）
Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past:
挽歌的：屬于，關(guān)于或涉及挽歌、哀悼或表達(dá)對(duì)不可挽回的事物的悲痛的：
例句：
an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
對(duì)青年理想的哀嘆

Of or composed in elegaic couplets.
挽歌體的：挽歌對(duì)句體的詩的，用挽歌對(duì)句體寫的詩的

來源：
Late Latin elegoacus
后期拉丁語 elegoacus
from Greek elegeiakos
源自 希臘語 elegeiakos
from elegeia [elegy] * see elegy
源自 elegeia [挽歌] *參見 elegy

【引伸】
el.egi.ac
n.（名詞）
el.egi.acal
adj.（形容詞）
el.egi.acally
adv.（副詞）