zombie是什么意思

n. 行尸走肉；蛇神；木讷呆板的人

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。

zombie: zombie: [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.

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。

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.

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.

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.