ballad

n.

民谣，尤指叙事歌谣；民歌；[音]伤感的情歌；

复数：ballads

1. This poem has the distinctive flavour of a ballad.
   这首诗有民歌风味。
2. The old man sang us a ballad.
   老人给我们唱了一首歌谣。
3. The singer led off with a popular ballad.
   歌唱家首先唱了一首流行的民歌。
4. The musician made the legend into a beautiful ballad.
   这位音乐家把传说编成了一首美丽的民谣。
5. You are more like a resounding ballad, telling us a moving legend.
   你更像一首优美而高亢的诗歌,一个美丽而动人的传奇。
6. It's a medieval ballad about a knight and a lady.
   这是一首关于骑士和贵族小姐的中世纪谣曲。

The Ballad of East and West
Message in a Ballad
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Message in a ballad: the role of music preferences in interpersonal perception.
The Rise of the English Street Ballad, 1550-1650. by Natascha Würzbach
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon:The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism by Steve Newman
An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries in the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London
Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song by Maria Herrera-Sobek
"The Manufacture and Lingua-facture of Ballad-Making ": Broadside Ballads in Long Eighteenth-Century Ballad Discourse