Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #15626
macabre
恐怖的；可怕的；以死亡为主题的
macabre
- 1.
Representing or personifying death.
代表或拟人化死亡
- 2.
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
对死亡或恐怖事物着迷
- 3.
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
可怕的,令人震惊的,恐怖的
代表或拟人化死亡；对死亡或恐怖事物着迷；可怕的,令人震惊的,恐怖的；以死亡为主题的；可怕的
In use
The old museum had a macabre display of skeletons and ancient funeral masks.
His macabre jokes made everyone at the dinner table feel uncomfortable.
She wrote a macabre story about a haunted castle that no one would visit.
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。
be + macabre
常用于描述艺术作品或场景。
The painting is quite macabre.
这幅画相当恐怖。
find sth + macabre
表达主观感受。
Connections
Collocations
- macabre sense of humor
- 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。
- macabre tale
- 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。
- macabre scene
- 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。
- macabre fascination
- 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。
- macabre discovery
- 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。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
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。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, OCTANOVE, WIKTIONARY.