词汇 | eulogy |
释义 | eulogy noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˈjuː.lə.dʒi/ us /ˈjuː.lə.dʒi/ a speech, piece of writing, poem, etc. containing great praise, especially for someone who recently died or retired from work: 悼词,悼文;(为刚刚退休的人所作的)颂词,颂文 He was the most self-effacing of men - the last thing he would have relished was a eulogy.他为人极其谦逊,最不喜听颂词。 eulogy toThe song was a eulogy to the joys of travelling.这是一首赞颂旅行乐趣的歌曲。 give the eulogyHe gave the eulogy at his father's funeral. Synonyms encomiumformal panegyricformal Praising and applauding acclaim acclamation accolade adulate adulation clap compliment encomium enthrone enthronement eulogistic eulogistically hail ode ooh ooh and aahidiom ovation overpraise overpraised puff Related wordseulogist eulogistic eulogy | American Dictionaryeulogy noun[ C/U ] us/ˈju·lə·dʒi/ a speech or piece of writing containing great praise, esp. for someone who has recently died: [ C ]He delivered the eulogy at his father’s funeral. Examples of eulogyeulogy Although specific enough, they tend more towards eulogies and are disconnected from social and political realities. There was no eulogy or obituary in a national newspaper. Their work is a form of eulogy on the provisional nature of our existence and mortality in praise of place. At this ironic but forceful flood of eulogies, we need no power of imagination to understand his true nature. Behind the eulogies that accompanied the memorial's construction lie two other impulses. Because no examples are given or reference made to exceptions (an hour, a eulogy), one wonders if the same person made both entries. Clearly the chronicle is no eulogy of its subjects, but it has an epic quality. Even allowing a healthy margin for sycophantic exaggeration, the effect of such eulogy is impressive. There will be no academic studies, no eulogies from gullible literary editors. These eulogies had to reinvent their protagonists in ways that displaced their troublesome ethnicities. They read eulogies, followed by student performance of memorial chants and music. However, those two inscriptions belong to the thirteenth century, and one should expect not only a lot of mutual influence but also a mixing of the two groups of eulogies. As they emphasized in their eulogies of these rulers, they were exemplary precisely because they relied on the professional nobility in the running of the kingdom. But author and orators compounded a glaring omission : nowhere in those written and spoken eulogies was attention given to a working person, a condition of labor, or a trade union. It is true that the sitter himself was to question it afterwards as not being a wholly accurate portrait - perhaps because of some few critical comments in the general eulogy. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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