Nosferatu

參見：nosferatu

英語

詞源

可能源自一個指吸血鬼的羅馬尼亞語詞。該詞在布萊姆·斯托克於1897年所著小說《德拉庫拉》和F·W·穆瑙執導的1922年德國電影《不死殭屍—恐慄交響曲》的影響下得到普及。參見英語維基百科中關於該詞詞源的解釋（以及其參考資料）。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˌnɒsfəˈɹɑːtuː/

名詞

Nosferatu (複數 Nosferatu)

1. 吸血鬼

   近義詞： vampire

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, 出版於 1993，頁號 192:

     "Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss [...] you would in time, when you had died, have become nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror."

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   • 2018 November, Kevin Jackson, 「Something to Sink Your Teeth Into」, 出自 Literary Review:

     Those of us who have dabbled much in the lore of the nosferatu tend to think of them as imaginative creations of the German and English Romantics, and not without reason.

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   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History，頁號 26:

     While it may have been capable of flight, it almost certainly spent its time on Hateg crawling about on its wrists, with its great leathery wings folded over its body like a shroud. A gigantic kind of Nosferatu comes to mind.

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異序詞

• furostane