macabre

英 [məˈkɑːbrə]

美 [məˈkɑːbrə]

adj.  可怕的，恐怖的(尤指与死亡等相联系的)

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.15626 / COCA.18553

牛津词典

adj.

• 可怕的，恐怖的（尤指与死亡等相联系的）
  unpleasant and strange because connected with death and frightening things
  1. a macabre tale/joke/ritual
     令人毛骨悚然的故事 / 笑话 / 仪式

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 令人毛骨悚然的;恐怖的;可怕的;与死亡(或伤害)有关的
  You describe something such as an event or story asmacabrewhen it is strange and horrible or upsetting, usually because it involves death or injury.
  1. Police have made a macabre discovery...
     警方有一个令人毛骨悚然的发现。
  2. Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.
     达尔先生以成人恐怖小说集《意料之外的故事》闻名于世。

英英释义

adj

• shockingly repellent
  1. ghastly wounds
  2. the grim aftermath of the bombing
  3. the grim task of burying the victims
  4. a grisly murder
  5. gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  6. macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  7. macabre tortures conceived by madmen
  Synonym:ghastlygrimgrislygruesomesick

双语例句

• In2008 local news media uncovered a macabre network that lured unemployed urban youths to the countryside with promises of jobs, only to kill them and pass them off as dead rebels.
  2008年，当地新闻媒体揭发了一个害人的犯罪陷阱，以工作为诱饵欺骗失业的城市年轻人来到农村，然后杀害他们，将他们混充为战死的叛乱分子。
• Log on to the Hammer Web ring, with 12 more sites devoted to macabre movies.
  登录哈默网络联盟，就会找到另外12个专门播放恐怖电影的网站。
• By taking her on macabre field trips to funeral parlors?
  把她带上去往殡仪馆的死亡旅行？
• Yet medical monstrosities that are hardly any better undoubtedly continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries.
  然而，那些几乎不可能比安乐死更好的医疗中的可怕事件，作为一种可怕的例行事物，毫无疑问，在美国、英国以及其他许多国家继续存在。
• Passenger Jane Allen, whose great-uncle died on his honeymoon trip on the Titanic while her great-aunt survived, said she did not think it was ghoulish or macabre to go on the voyage.
  乘客简-艾伦的伯祖父在泰坦尼克号上遇难，当时他正度蜜月，简的伯祖母幸存了下来。简说，她不觉得这次纪念之旅令人毛骨悚然或者非常可怕。
• Macabre stories about tortures conceived by a madman.
  关于由一个疯子构想出来的可怕故事。
• Sometimes after finishing a biography one is left feeling unfulfilled, still longing to know what the subject was really like, especially if the person being studied belongs in the category of the bizarre or macabre; is just plain daft, or creatively eccentric.
  有时读完传记以后，读者仍然感觉不过瘾，希望了解更多事情本来的面目，特别是被研究的人物被归于古怪或阴森恐怖之列时，读者们想知道这些人物只是皮影戏，还是纸老虎。
• Police have made a macabre discovery
  警方有一个令人毛骨悚然的发现。
• The plaster smell was consistent with the fact that Joan of Arc was burnt on a plaster stake, not a wooden one, to make the whole macabre spectacle last longer.
  石膏味与当时为了增加痛苦，火刑在石膏柱而非木柱上进行的事实吻合。
• A French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language ( 1821-1867).
  以死亡为主题和呼唤言语表达方式而著名的法国诗人。