同义词： danse macabre
以上来源于: WordNet
N a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death 死亡之舞; 中世纪舞蹈表演，由人扮演的死神引领不同社会阶层的人走向坟墓，意在说明每个人在死亡面前都是平等的 (Also called (French) danse macabre)
But before macabre meant macabre why call the dance of death macabre?
那macabre怎么又跟死亡之舞扯上了？
This is why a bull fighting match is also known as the dance of death.
这也正是斗牛又被称做“死亡之舞”的原因所在。
We in English gained the word from an art form known as the danse macabre or the dance of death.
英语里的macabre一词源自一种叫danse macabre(死亡之舞)的画。
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