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小词详解 | morbid
morbid 英 [ˈmɔːbɪd] 美 [ˈmɔːrbɪd]
You might expect a book on this morbid theme to be forbidding or sombre.
你或许会以为一本讲述死亡这种暗黑题材的书读来会可怕或阴郁。
——《经济学人》I lived in the western sector for the last couple of years of this period and to me the city was fascinating in a morbid way.
该时期即将结束的那几年,我居住在西柏林。对我而言,当时的这座城市有一种病态的迷人气息。
——《纽约时报》
不厌其烦地谈论墓地以及诸如此类的事是一种病态。
It’s morbid to dwell on cemeteries and such like.
For a young man, this was rather a morbid turn of character, and so affected Carrie. Indeed, it affected the entire atmosphere of the flat, as such things are inclined to do, and gave to his wife's mind its subdued and tactful turn, anxious to avoid taciturn replies.
对于一个年轻人来说,这实在是一种不正常的性格。这使嘉莉的情绪也受到影响。其实他还影响了整个屋子的气氛。这种事往往都是这样的。在这种气氛里,他的妻子性格变得谨小慎微,处事圆活,竭力避免自讨没趣。
ghoulish: morbidly interested in death or disaster macabre: disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or distorted