单词 | macabre |
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音标 | [mə'kɑ:bə] |
解释 | a.骇人的,可怖的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 骇人的,可怖的(grim and horrible; gruesome) 【考】 macabre : shudder / hilarious : laugh(可怕的[东西]让人颤 抖/可笑的[东西]让人 发笑) 【记】 来自法语,原指'骷髅 舞蹈' 【例】 a macabre |
字源 | macabre (adj.) early 15c., originally in reference to a kind of morality show or allegorical representation of death and his victims, from Old French (danse) Macabré "(dance) of Death" (1376), of uncertain origin, probably a translation of Medieval Latin (Chorea) Machabæorum, literally "dance of the Maccabees" (leaders of the Jewish revolt against Syro-Hellenes; see Maccabees). The association with the dance of death seems to be from vivid descriptions of the martyrdom of the Maccabees in the Apocryphal books. The abstracted sense of "gruesome" is first attested 1842 in French, 1889 in English. The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of pictures, sculptured or painted, in which Death appears, either as a dancing skeleton or as a shrunken corpse wrapped in grave-clothes to persons representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the grave. ["Encyclopaedia Britannica," 11th ed., 1911] |
不择手段背单词 | adj. (令人联想起死亡的)恐怖的 【记】来自法语, 原指"quot;死神之舞"quot;ma妈妈, cab出租车, re热: 妈妈在出租车里面很热, 因为开不开车门, 联想好莱坞的大片, 司机杀乘客的情景. 【类】macabre: shudder = hilarious: laugh可怕的让人颤抖 = 可笑的让人发笑 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】音:妈可怕,妈可怖,我的妈呀,好可怕,可怖;remarkable 非常的 |
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