sepulchral

adj.

1. 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。

1. ADJ-GRADED 阴郁的;阴沉的;非常恐怖的
   Something that is sepulchral is 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。
2. ADJ-GRADED 阴森的;空寂的
   A sepulchral place 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。

1. 'He's gone,' Rory whispered in sepulchral tones.
   “他已经走了，”罗里阴沉地小声说道。
2. He made his way along the sepulchral corridors.
   他沿着阴森森的走廊走着。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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
6. There was a rather sepulchral atmosphere in the room.
   房间里有一种颇为阴沉的气氛。
7. "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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. Not a whisper broke the sepulchral silence.
    没有一声低语扣破阴郁的沉默。
11. In the washroom by the entrance, Levchenko remarked that a kind of sepulchral quiet seemed to pervade the residency.
    在大门旁边的盥洗室里，列夫钦科说情报站里安静得似乎有点阴森森。
12. 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。
13. Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
    你是否听到那阴森森的音调？
14. 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。

adj

1. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial
   1. funereal gloom
   2. hollow sepulchral tones

   Synonym:    funereal

2. 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

3. of or relating to a sepulchre
   1. sepulchral inscriptions
   2. sepulchral monuments in churches