英语词汇macabre的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

macabre; danse macabre. Macabre, “gruesome, ghastly, or grim,” comes directly from the danse macabre, or dance of death, which probably originated with a 14th-century German morality play eventually known throughout Europe. Death de- bates all his victims in this drama, winning his arguments with young and old, rich and poor, wise and foolish—and a weird dance ends the play as he leads his victims offstage. The dance of death survived in many allegorical paintings, sculptures, and tapestries, notably the engravings by Hans Holbein (1538), its popularity due to the overpowering awareness of death during the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, a plague that wiped out two-thirds of Europe’s population. La danse macabre is believed by most scholars to have been suggested by and re- ceived its name from the dance of the seven martyred Macca- bee brothers recounted in 2 Maccabees, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament. The Medieval Latin chorea Machabaeorum became corrupted to danse macabre in French, the adjective macabre not appearing in English until the end of the 19th century.

词汇	macabre
词源	macabre; danse macabre. Macabre, “gruesome, ghastly, or grim,” comes directly from the danse macabre, or dance of death, which probably originated with a 14th-century German morality play eventually known throughout Europe. Death de- bates all his victims in this drama, winning his arguments with young and old, rich and poor, wise and foolish—and a weird dance ends the play as he leads his victims offstage. The dance of death survived in many allegorical paintings, sculptures, and tapestries, notably the engravings by Hans Holbein (1538), its popularity due to the overpowering awareness of death during the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, a plague that wiped out two-thirds of Europe’s population. La danse macabre is believed by most scholars to have been suggested by and re- ceived its name from the dance of the seven martyred Macca- bee brothers recounted in 2 Maccabees, an apocryphal book of the Old Testament. The Medieval Latin chorea Machabaeorum became corrupted to danse macabre in French, the adjective macabre not appearing in English until the end of the 19th century.
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