macabre + noun
He told a macabre story about a haunted house.
他讲了一个关于鬼屋的恐怖故事。
恐怖的;可怕的;以死亡为主题的
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恐怖的;可怕的;以死亡为主题的
macabre
He told a macabre story about a haunted house.
他讲了一个关于鬼屋的恐怖故事。
代表或拟人化死亡
Representing or personifying death.
对死亡或恐怖事物着迷
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
可怕的,令人震惊的,恐怖的
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
The old museum had a macabre display of skeletons and ancient funeral masks.
那座老博物馆里有一组由骷髅和古代葬礼面具组成的可怕展品。
His macabre jokes made everyone at the dinner table feel uncomfortable.
他那些恐怖的玩笑让餐桌上的每个人都很不舒服。
She wrote a macabre story about a haunted castle that no one would visit.
她写了一个关于一座无人敢去的闹鬼城堡的恐怖故事。
He told a macabre story about a haunted house.
他讲了一个关于鬼屋的恐怖故事。
常用于描述艺术作品或场景。
The painting is quite macabre.
这幅画相当恐怖。
表达主观感受。
Many people find his sense of humor macabre.
许多人觉得他的幽默感令人毛骨悚然。
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黑色幽默感;对恐怖事物的病态幽默
His macabre sense of humor often makes his friends uncomfortable.
他那黑色幽默感常常让朋友们感到不自在。
阴森恐怖的故事;关于死亡的故事
The book is a macabre tale of a family curse.
这本书讲述了一个关于家族诅咒的阴森恐怖的故事。
可怕/恐怖的场面
Police arrived at the macabre scene of the crime.
警察赶到了骇人的犯罪现场。
对死亡/恐怖事物的迷恋
She has a macabre fascination with old funeral customs.
她对古老的殡葬习俗有一种病态的迷恋。
骇人的发现
The construction workers made a macabre discovery beneath the old floor.
建筑工人在旧地板下面有了骇人的发现。
《骷髅之舞》是法国作曲家圣桑的交响诗,以死亡和恐怖为主题,是最著名的古典乐之一。
The film's macabre scenes were inspired by the Danse Macabre.
电影中那些恐怖的场景灵感来源于《骷髅之舞》。
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联想“死亡之舞”(danse macabre):月光下骷髅起舞,阴森恐怖——macabre就是骇人的死亡主题。
语域:formal 常见场景:Literature、Film and TV criticism、News reports macabre 多用于文学、影视评论或新闻报道等书面语境,语气较正式,日常口语中较少使用。
Genuine rhymes: none for /məˈkɑːbrə/. Lookalikes: sabre, sombre, calibre, fibre end in -bre but are pronounced with final /bər/, not /brə/; genre has a final /rə/ but a different vowel and consonant before it.
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