undead
英語
編輯詞源
編輯繼承自中古英語 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。
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編輯形容詞
編輯undead (無比較級)
- （屍體）仍具有生命的
- (恐怖作品) 不死的 （已死亡但還能活動的）
- 2018年11月27日, 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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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，第 xxiv. 319 頁:
- "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年7月16日, 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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編輯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.
- 依諾增爵八世讓不死族的真實存在變得可信，這一行為延續了甚至刺激了對吸血鬼的恐慌。