| 词汇 | macabre |
| 释义 | macabre adjective uk /məˈkɑː.brə/ us /məˈkɑː.brə/ used to describe something that is very strange and unpleasant because it is connected with death or violence: （与死亡或暴力有关而）恐怖的，可怕的，令人毛骨悚然的 Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.连警方也为令人发指的杀戮行径所震惊。 She has a pretty macabre sense of humour.她有一种颇让人害怕的幽默感。 Synonyms ghastly ghoulishdisapproving grim grisly gruesome Death and dying all-cause mortality antemortem bereave bite bleed out coroner death toll ghost have one foot in the graveidiom perish posthumously raise raise someone from the deadidiom remains roadkill self-extinction sepulchrally snuff snuff itidiom toll You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Serious and unpleasant macabre | American Dictionarymacabre adjective us/məˈkɑb·rə, -ˈkɑb/ causing shock and fear because connected with death, esp. strange or cruel death: After the diagnosis, he said he just wanted to stay “above ground,” she recalled, smiling at his macabre humor. Examples of macabremacabre The electric atmospherics, without flesh, frozen, cold, almost macabre, are animated by dry movements, unpitying in their stiffness in their surges and disappearances, although non-violent. Though it may not be immediately perceived as functional, the grotesque plays a structural premonitory part in association with the macabre. On the web, terms like haunting, macabre and harrowing are used to describe the album. Do people lie to the canvassers as an easy (if macabre) way of getting rid of them? All of them are foreshadowings of her tragic fate and contribute to the macabre atmosphere of the novel. The same point could be made through less macabre means. Instead, it ranges widely over more unusual, often macabre uses of human bodies, past and present. At other times the premonitory value of a macabre description can be perceived only very late in the novel. The chapter ends with a warning to parents about "verbal danger signs" such as an increase in the use of profane language, aggressive discourse, macabre content, and hate expressions. Redon's inter pretation of the organic menace that threatens to overwhelm the saint was that of the macabre rapidly-breeding microbe. Such solemnity is even more potent as the reference to tragic grandeur has already been preceded by a macabre reference to the "tomb-like stillness" of the place (41). That report shows that all the alternatives to hanging are equally macabre and corrosive to a civilised society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It said that the alternatives to hanging were equally macabre, debasing to those who took part and corrosive of a civilised society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost of this danse macabre will mop up a goodly portion of the money bled from charitable institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, no one of his own free choice would wish to make a maiden speech on so tragic, so macabre, a subject as this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。