macabre

• adj.ぞっとする；死をテーマにした；不気味な（マカバーに等しい）

古フランス語のdanse Macabre「死の舞踏」から。語源は不明。ラテン語のChorea Machabaeorum訳、つまりマカベス?コレアから来ているのかもしれない。 紀元前2世紀から1世紀にかけて、ユダヤ人の世襲司祭一族がギリシャとシリアの連合軍の侵攻に抵抗するために、一族の多くが戦死した。この悲劇的な物語は、後にこの歴史を基にした戯曲になった。派生語源 dreadful, horrible.百度百科事典「マカビース」を参照。

macabre

macabre: [15] Macabre is now used generally for ‘ghastly’, but that is a late 19th-century development. It originated in the very specific phrase dance macabre, which denoted a dance in which a figure representing death enticed people to dance with him until they dropped down dead. This was borrowed from French danse macabre, which was probably an alteration of an earlier danse Macabé. This in turn was a translation of medieval Latin chorea Machabaeorum ‘dance of the Maccabees’, which is thought originally to have referred to a stylized representation of the slaughter of the Maccabees (a Jewish dynasty of biblical times) in a medieval miracle play.

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) Machab?orum, 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]

1. He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.

彼が墓地にそんなに気をつけているのは、不気味だ。

2.Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called "Tales of the Unexpected ".

ダル氏はアダルトホラー小説集『予想外の物語』で知られている。

3.Log on to the Hammer Web ring，with 12 more sites devoted to macabre movies.

ハーマーネットワークアライアンスにログインすると、ホラー映画を専門に放送している別の12のサイトが見つかります。

4.Police have made a macabre discovery.

警察に不気味な発見があった。

5.In such a macabre climax of degradation II Duce and Fascism passed into history.

イタリアの指導者とファシズムはこのような悲惨な恥ずべき末路に落ちて歴史の古跡となった。