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单词 macabre
释义
macabrema‧ca‧bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINmacabre
Origin:
1400-1500 French (danse) macabre ‘dance of death’, from earlier (danse de) Macabré, perhaps from Medieval Latin chorea Maccabaeorum ‘dance of the Maccabees’, a representation of the killing of the Maccabees, a Jewish family of Bible times
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a macabre sense of humor
  • These drawings of the dead are moving rather than macabre.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Although the spectacle had macabre entertainment value, a fundamental question got buried in the slime: Did Carey finagle the books?
  • And though this may sound macabre, I did enjoy last night once it got going.
  • Dimitri's enquiry didn't seem in the least strange or macabre to me.
  • Here sea, death and physical passion combine in a macabre and concrete image.
  • It adds a macabre touch to the bones from the hospital.
  • Just as macabre was the 8 for 28 collapse at Leeds.
  • Politics, blocked, has turned macabre.
very strange and unpleasant and connected with death or with people being seriously hurt:  a macabre tale a macabre sense of humour
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