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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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？

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Always fearful of trees falling on the house, we were spectators to the macabre dance of the surrounding woods, swaying like a giant mosh pit.

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