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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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。

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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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Sitting a little too close to Clay, she exchanges a few pleasantries before the dance of death begins.

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And it seemed to Katia that the dance of death was not merely horrid but unjust terrifying because the lion was going to eat both the cow and the unborn calf.

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Mr. Watkins said that "some of the harmonies and the wildness of the rhythms" in "Tanec" have elements of a dance of death.

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