sepulchral

英 [səˈpʌlkrəl]

美 [səˈpʌlkrəl]

adj.  阴沉的; 阴森森的; 死一般的

GRE

BNC.34211 / COCA.34253

牛津词典

adj.

• 阴沉的；阴森森的；死一般的
  looking or sounding sad and serious; making you think of death
  1. He spoke in sepulchral tones.
     他说话语气阴沉。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 阴郁的;阴沉的;非常恐怖的
  Something that issepulchralis serious or sad and rather frightening.
  1. 'He's gone,' Rory whispered in sepulchral tones.
     “他已经走了，”罗里阴沉地小声说道。
• ADJ-GRADED 阴森的;空寂的
  Asepulchralplace is dark, quiet, and empty.
  1. He made his way along the sepulchral corridors.
     他沿着阴森森的走廊走着。

英英释义

adj

• suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
  1. funereal gloom
  2. hollow sepulchral tones
  Synonym:funereal
• gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
  1. a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
  2. ghastly shrieks
  3. the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
  Synonym:charnelghastly
• of or relating to a sepulchre
  1. sepulchral inscriptions
  2. sepulchral monuments in churches

双语例句

• "There are punishments worse than death," he said, in his hollow, sepulchral voice.
  有比死亡更糟的惩罚，他以他瓮塞的、阴沉的嗓音说道。
• A charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones; ghastly shrieks; the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs.
  一股阴森的气味从装满死人尸骨的柜子中透出；恐怖的尖叫；坟墓里阴森的黑暗。
• This group of victim and executioner was illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul.
  他心里燃烧着的阴森火光，照亮了受刑人和刽子手这一对形象。
• 'He's gone,' Rory whispered in sepulchral tones.
  “他已经走了，”罗里阴沉地小声说道。
• Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
  沙沙作响的树叶像是鬼怪们在窃窃私语，暗影里不知有多少魂灵埋伏着，远处不时传来沉沉的狗吠，一只猫头鹰阴森地厉叫着。
• Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
  你是否听到那阴森森的音调？
• Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.
  这时一种阴森森的变态使这个百岁老人象年轻人一样竖直了身子。
• She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice
  她用手掌抹平自己的头发，一面对着镜子装笑脸，一面用她那破裂阴惨的嗓子轻轻地哼着
• The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers, overwhelmed by the sepulchral atmosphere, follow suit.
  店主操着一口舒缓悠闲的音调，而买东西的人们被这种有点阴森森的气氛所感染，说话也变得小声了。
• The man asked me, in a sepulchral tone, if I believed in the lord.
  那人用低沉严肃的声调问我是否信奉上帝。