- 1不死族、活死人（恐怖或奇幻作品中殭屍、吸血鬼等角色的統稱）
The undead are creatures that are dead but still move, think, or act as if they were alive — zombies, vampires, and some ghosts are all called 'undead' in horror movies, games, and fantasy stories. The name is a little strange if you think about it: they are not alive, but calling them simply 'dead' would not capture how they keep walking around and causing trouble.
From the word’s history
un- + dead, c. 1400; given its supernatural sense by Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).
un-（不）加 dead（死的）；因小說《德古拉》而有了殭屍意思。
組成'Un-' (not) plus 'dead.' A simple, almost ironic name, since these creatures are dead but still act alive.
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undeadadj/ʌnˈdɛd/
- 1
obsoleteNot dead; alive.
- 2
Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
- 3
Being animate, though non-living.
- 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.
undeadnoun/ʌnˈdɛd/
- 1
A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
- Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
- 2
A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
- In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.
- "You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
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