elegy n. 哀歌、挽歌 a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead satire:ridicule=elegy:sorrow elegiac:sorrow=devotional:reverence elephantine a. 象的,巨大的,粗笨的 having enormous size or strength:MASSIVE microscopicelephantine elevate vt. 举起,提拔,鼓舞 to raise in rank or status:EXALT debasementelevation elicit vt. 引出,抽出,引起 to draw forth or bring out evokefail to elicit elitism n.精英论,优秀人士统治 leadership or rule by an elite ellipsis n省略 the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete apostrophes:word=ellipsis:sentence elliptical a.椭圆的;省略的 , 朦胧的,含糊的 of or relating to deliberate obscurity ellipticalpalpable elongate v.延长,伸长 to extend the length of elucidate v.阐明说明 to give a clarifying explanation |