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Morbid Describe 英 Mɔːbɪd] 美 Mɔːrbɪd Adj.病态的;不正常的 Imagination Cemeteries

英语单词 morbid
英美音标 英 ['mɔːbɪd] 美 ['mɔːrbɪd]
中文释义 adj.病态的;不正常的
英语例句 (1) She always has a morbid imagination.
(2) Why do you like going to cemeteries so much? Is it some kind of morbid curiosity?
中文例句 (1) 她总在做病态的想像。
(2) 你为什么这么爱去墓地?是不是有些不太正常?
vocabulary简明 If the first section of the newspaper you read is the obituaries, you could be considered morbid. Morbid is a word used to describe anyone who spends too much time thinking about death or disease.
vocabulary扩展 A lot of English words relating to medicine and science come from Latin, and the adjective morbid is one of them; it comes from the root morbidus, meaning "diseased" or "sick." Morbid can also be used to describe other nouns besides people. If you wear Goth clothing, your wardrobe might be described as morbid. And if you hang tombstones on your walls, your taste in art could also be described as morbid.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]病态的;不正常的;心理不健康的 If you describe a person or their interest in something as morbid, you mean that they are very interested in unpleasant things, especially death, and you think this is strange.
  [disapproval]
  • Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.

    一些人对犯罪有一种病态的痴迷。

  • ...morbid curiosity about the convicted murderer.

    对被定罪的杀人犯病态的好奇

morbidly
  • There's something morbidly fascinating about the thought.

    这个想法中有某种不正常的、令人痴迷的东西。

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