释义 |
macabrema‧ca‧bre /məˈkɑːbrə, -bə $ -brə, -bər/ adjective macabreOrigin: 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 - a macabre sense of humor
- These drawings of the dead are moving rather than macabre.
- 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 |