英:[məˈkɑ:brə]
美:[məˈkɑbrə, məˈkɑb, -ˈkɑbɚ]
英:[məˈkɑ:brə]
美:[məˈkɑbrə, məˈkɑb, -ˈkɑbɚ]
ma·ca·bre
m ka br [or] m ka br
Adjective
1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
"ghastly wounds"
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"
"the grim task of burying the victims"
"a grisly murder"
"gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
"macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
"macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
15世纪初,出现了 Macabrees daunce 和 daunce of Machabree,一种以死亡和他的受害者为主题的道德剧或寓言表演,源自于1376年的古法语 (danse) Macabré,意为“死亡之舞”,其起源不确定。
约翰·利德盖特(约1370年-约1451年),这位修士/诗人首次将其翻译成英语时,似乎将其视为法国作者的名字,也许它是一个法国姓氏 Macabré.。或者它可能来自中世纪拉丁语 (Chorea) Machabæorum,字面意思是“马加比人之舞”(犹太人反抗叙利亚希腊人的领导人; 参见 Maccabees)。如果是这样,与死亡之舞(中世纪文学和艺术中的一个常见主题)的联系可能来自于《伪经》中马加比人殉道的生动描述。
The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of pictures, sculptured or painted, in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken corpse wrapped in grave-clothes to persons representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911]
这种寓言的典型形式是一系列雕塑或绘画的图片,其中死神以跳舞的骷髅或裹着殓衣的干尸的形象出现在代表各个年龄和生活状态的人们面前,并带领他们一起跳舞走向坟墓。[ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911]
1842年法语中出现了“以可怕为特点”的抽象意义,1889年在英语中出现。相关词汇: Macaberesque。
French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabré
The first known use of macabre was in 1841
macadamnoun
a roadway or pavement constructed by compacting a layer of small broken stone along with a binder (as cement or asphalt)
macabreadjective
having death as a subject
marked by or arousing horror
1 Sayrafiezadeh’s second story collection both exceeds and expands upon the promise of his first, rendering a United States that’s strange and sometimes macabre, but still recognizable.
2 There’s also a macabre trapeze display she has to perform with an artist’s male dummy.
3 I’m certainly not the only one with a macabre sense of humor.
4 Among the many elements that Coover imitates so well is Twain’s misanthropy, his macabre sense of humor and his perpetually offended innocence.
5 Davidson Galleries’ exhibition is timed for Halloween but doesn’t dwell on the macabre.
6 The effect was that of a macabre dollhouse.
7 The organizers played down any connection to Halloween and the world of the macabre.
8 On the scale of macabre fascination, though, the production still has a few dark steps to climb.
9 Most objects are violent, raw, macabre, and deliberately so.
大多数展品看上去粗暴,原始而又骇人,而且是刻意为之的。
10 Upon understanding that no one else saw the macabre atmosphere, Ms. Damalas became perpetually guarded.
11 Tonight, the pair's paths cross again, as both pursue their own macabre investigations.
12 But the spotlight is on Beryl’s macabre childhood and a string of dead pets.
13 I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
14 And in a bizarre plot line recalling Edgar Allan Poe and "The Godfather," he introduces a dark strain of the macabre to the multi-stranded narrative.
15 On his engrossing second record, “Wondrous Bughouse,” Mr. Powers unveiled an achingly macabre dimension, in one song wailing at the bedside of a dying relative as he imagines his own body below dirt.
16 With its mix of the domestic and the macabre, we are not too far from Strangers on a Train 24 years later.
17 “La Valse,” a macabre Balanchine ballet from 1951 set to waltz music by Ravel, highlighted another indelible role originated by Le Clercq.
18 And where Brontë’s prose and characters are served up with an almost macabre glee, Phillips’ smoothly written account of Monica’s troubles is unfailingly downbeat and dispirited.
19 Like his friend Gary Larson, the creator of “The Far Side,” Mr. Callahan made drawings with a gleeful appreciation of the macabre as it exists in everyday life.
20 Buzz is high among VHS enthusiasts for the museum’s July 6 screening of “Tales From the Quadead Zone,” a 1987 horror anthology featuring a woman reading macabre stories to her phantom son.
1 令人毛骨悚然的
creepy horrific ghastly hair-raising blood-curdling spine-chilling creepy-crawly spooky lurid spine-tingling bloodcurdling haircurling gruesome hairy ghoulish sick breathtaking ominous uncanny shadowy atrocious gory grisly crawly grewsome bloodchilling horrent
2 令人恐惧的
4 阴惨而令人联想到死亡的
5 恐怖
horrible chilly aghast direful terror dread affright terrify strike terror into heart horrific horrid ghastly grisly hair-raising Kafkaesque horror fright frightfulness horrify scary eerie gruesome inhuman harrowing unearthly
6 恐怖的
scary sick terrible horrible awful horrific fearful dreaded horrendous gruesome horrid ghastly chilly aghast direful grisly hair-raising Kafkaesque ghoulish unearthly bloodcurdling eerie inhuman harrowing
7 死亡
lethal obituary defunct end night fall death passing departure grave curtain tomb demise fatality dissolution expiry nothingness decease quietus die sleep expire depart evaporate perish croak meet fate the Grim Reaper go to account answer a call of nature the Reaper be raised to the skies under hatches turn up toes
8 可怕
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9 引起恐惧的
12 可怕的
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13 可怖的