It was as if the Night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
那仿佛是夜神正在那儿咬牙切齿地唱挽歌。It's never easy to say goodbye but when the time comes, more Britons are choosing a pop ditty over a mournful dirge.
说再见从来都不是件容易之事，但当这一刻来临之时，更多之英国人现在倾向于选择流行之歌谣而不是哀伤之挽歌。And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.
树干着火，烧尽了枝子和果子；它不再有坚硬的枝子，可作王的令牌。这是一首挽歌；In Propertius's love elegies, the first line of the first poem reads "Cynthia was the first to capture me with her eyes" .
普罗佩提乌斯的爱情挽歌，第一句是这样写的：“月亮女神用她的眼神俘虏了我的心。”Like a long elegymade of memory and life, the author sang for the ancient city alone which had disappeared in his heart.
犹如一首用记忆和生命编织的悠长挽歌，作者独自一人吟唱给他心中已经消失了的古城。It was to be a funeral dirge , a farewell song to a dead friendship.
这将是一首葬礼挽歌，一首为夫去的友谊谱写的告别曲。It was for Keats that Shelley had written his elegy, adonais, in 1821, in which he seemed to predict his own death.
雪莱在1821年写的那篇挽歌《阿童尼》是为悼念济慈而写的，但在这诗篇中，他好像也预言了自己的死亡。From the point of view of history development, the efforts in admonition reflected a factor that the bachelor politics was winding up.
从历史的发展来看，明代官员在进谏方面的努力，可视为中国古代士人政治的挽歌。One of his own economic advisers lamented: "This is the end of Western civilisation. "
一位其手下的经济顾问曾为此大唱挽歌：“这简直就是西方文明的末日。”