disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury 恐怖的;毛骨悚然的 a macabre series of murders. 一系列令人毛骨悚然的谋杀案。
语源
late 19th cent.: from French macabre, from Danse Macabre 'dance of death', from Old French, perhaps from Macabé 'a Maccabee', with reference to a miracle play depicting the slaughter of the Maccabees