zombie的用法、是什么意思、怎么读、翻译

zombie

英 ['zɒmbɪ]

美['zɑmbi]

英英释义

实用场景例句

n. 行尸走肉；蛇神；木讷呆板的人

畅通词汇

词态变化

复数: zombies;

中文词源

zombie 僵尸来自西非某语言，原义为蛇神，后用以指僵尸。

英文词源

zombiezombie: [19] Zombie was originally the name of a snake-god in the voodoo cult of West Africa, and later of the Caribbean, and it comes from a West African language (it is related to Kongo nzambi ‘god’ and zumbi ‘fetish’). It was later applied to a reanimated corpse in the voodoo cult, and a ghoulish sense of humour transferred the English word in the 1930s to a ‘catatonically slow-witted person’.zombie (n.)1871, of West African origin (compare Kikongo zumbi "fetish;" Kimbundu nzambi "god"), originally the name of a snake god, later with meaning "reanimated corpse" in voodoo cult. But perhaps also from Louisiana creole word meaning "phantom, ghost," from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost." Sense "slow-witted person" is recorded from 1936.

双语例句

1. Without sleep you will become a zombie at work. 不睡觉的话，工作起来会变得反应迟钝。 来自柯林斯例句

2. I didn't want to do anything, I just sat at home and vegetated. I became a total zombie. 我什么也不想做，就是呆坐在家里，过着百无聊赖的生活。我完全变成了行尸走肉。 来自柯林斯例句

3. His nights filled with dreams, his days with work - just like a zombie. 把夜里的事交给梦,白天的事交给手脚, 他仿佛是个能干活的死人. 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

4. He looked like a zombie the morning after he went out drinking. 在他外出喝酒后的次日早晨,他看起来了无生气像一个僵尸. 来自辞典例句

5. Hollake was everything that the Efficient Zombie wasn't. 霍雷克就不同了,不论在哪一点上,他都是讲求效率的蠢才的反面. 来自辞典例句