threnody

noun

1. 挽歌；哀歌；悲诗；哀悼
   a song, poem or other expression of great sadness for sb who has died or for sth that has ended

1. They sang a threnody for the dead person.
   他们为那个死去的人唱了哀歌。
2. Threnody for Women Wretches& on humanistic concern in the book "Corn"
   为薄命的红颜悲歌&论《玉米》中的人文关怀
3. She listened to its dismal threnody, tapping her teeth with her red pencil and watching rivulets snaking down the windowpanes.
   她一边谛听着那忧悒的悲歌，一边用红色的铅笔轻击着她的牙齿，看着雨水顺窗玻璃蜿蜒流下。
4. Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels are a threnody of the decline of the British rural patriarchal clan society, whose mood and tune experienced a complicated evolution from cheer to melancholy and desolation.
   哈代的威塞克斯小说是英国宗法制农村社会衰亡的一曲挽歌，其情调经历了曲折的演变过程：欢快忧郁悲凉。
5. Both The Thunderstorm and The Golden Lock Story Pay the close attention to the state of the female who lived in the old-style family, narrate their experiences of love or hate, sing a threnody and a dirge for them with heart.
   《雷雨》和《金锁记》都表达了对旧时代女性生活、生存状态的极大关注，描绘了她们的爱与恨，为她们谱写了一曲悲歌，一曲挽歌。
6. Threnody and Dirge: the World of Female& The Female Image in The Thunderstorm and The Golden Lock Story
   悲歌·挽歌：她们的世界&《雷雨》、《金锁记》女性形象比较

noun

1. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

   Synonym:    dirgecoronachlamentrequiem