a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died 颂词,赞歌(尤指悼词,悼文) a eulogy of Nicetas the martyr. 奈斯特斯烈士的悼词。
语源
late Middle English (in the sense 'high praise'): from medieval Latin eulogium, eulogia (from Greek eulogia 'praise'), apparently influenced by Latin elogium 'inscription on a tomb' (from Greek elegia 'elegy'). The current sense dates from the late 16th cent