undead
英語[编辑]
詞源[编辑]
繼承自中古英語 undede，等價於 un- + dead。最早可考的使用見於1400年左右，名詞用法則起自20世紀早期。
發音[编辑]
形容詞[编辑]
undead (無比較級)
- （屍體）仍具有生命的
- (恐怖作品) 不死的 （已死亡但还能活动的）
- 2018 11月 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, 出自 The A.V. Club[1]，於4 November 2019歸檔自原頁面:
- When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
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名詞[编辑]
the undead 複 (僅複數)
- (恐怖作品) 不死生物（群體，合稱）
- In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.
- 在喪屍電影中，一群不死族跟一些性感的裸泳青年搭訕。
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, 出版於 1899，頁號 xxiv. 319:
- "Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."
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- 2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, 出自 An Even Scarier Solstice:
- Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
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- 2017 7月 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, 出自 The Onion AV Club[2]:
- It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.
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名詞[编辑]
undead (複數 undeads)
- (恐怖作品) 不死生物（個體）
- 1983, Tanith Lee, The Wars of Vis[3]:
- "You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
- “你要幫我一個忙。”不死人對他說。
- 1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:
- Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
- 依諾增爵八世让不死族的真实存在变得可信，这一行为延续了甚至刺激了对吸血鬼的恐慌。