- 1吸血鬼；（比喻）吸乾人精力／錢財的人事物
In stories, a vampire is a dead person who does not stay dead. At night it comes out, bites people on the neck, and drinks their blood. The old rules say a vampire cannot go out in sunlight, has no reflection in a mirror, hates garlic and the cross, sleeps in a coffin, and can be killed with a wooden stake through the heart — but every book and film changes the rules a little, so nobody can really tell you the ‘correct’ ones. The word is a countable noun (a vampire, two vampires) and works as an adjective in front of other nouns too: vampire film, vampire bat. Outside stories, people use it for a person or thing that slowly takes your energy, your money or your time: ‘that job is a vampire’. There is also an old-fashioned verb, to vampire something, meaning to drain it — you will rarely meet it. One real animal carries the name: the vampire bat of Central and South America, which really does drink blood, mostly from cattle.
組成Comes into English through French vampire, from German Vampir, which came through Hungarian from a Slavic word — probably Serbo-Croatian vàmpīr — going back to Proto-Slavic *ǫpyrь. Its deeper origin is argued about: possibly a Turkic word *ōpur meaning ‘glutton, evil spirit’, possibly homegrown Slavic. English only picked it up in the 1730s, when travellers brought back reports from Eastern Europe.
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- vampthe ‘dangerous woman’ sense of vamp is vampire shortened
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vampirenoun/ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/
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A mythological creature (usually humanoid and undead) said to feed on the blood or life energy of the living.
- Bram Stoker's novel Dracula built on centuries-old stories of vampires and also encouraged new growth of the mythology.
- [I]n the Village of Medreyga in Hungary, certain dead Bodies (call'd there Vampyres) had kill'd several Persons by sucking out all their Blood: That Arnold Paul, an Heyduke, having kill'd four Persons after he was dead, his Body was taken up 40 Days after, which bled at the Nose, Mouth and Ears: That, according to Custom, they drove a Stake thro' his Heart, at which he gave horrid Groan, and lost a great deal of Blood. And that all such as have been tormented or kill'd by Vampyres, become Vampyres when they are dead.
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A person with habits traditionally ascribed to (literal) vampires, such as heliophobia, being a night owl, having pale skin, and so on.
- Near-synonyms: heliophobe, goth
- Somehow I doubt that Kelly will want to go surfing with us — she's such a vampire that she might recoil from the sun, lol!
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offensiveA person with the medical condition porphyria cutanea tarda, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.
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A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
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derogatoryA person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.
- emotional vampire
- You have to be careful what you tell her, because she's such a vampire for drama.
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datedA vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.
- "What followed this decision was exactly what we had expected: Mr. Fox, realizing that the public was tiring of Theda Bara in vampire roles, announced that he would star her in a production of Romeo and Juliet," she illustrated.
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slangA medical technician who works with patients' blood; especially, a phlebotomist.
- Only one technician in the hospital lab, in all we have encountered, uses it. […] Eric makes no complaints other than those directed at the vampires. Brenda and I do.
- "I draw blood from patients, and then I take it back to the lab and analyze it. Sometimes, the vampires do all the sticks, that is to say the lab assistants do all the blood collections." He grinned. "We have our own language at the lab."
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsSynonym of anti-ship missile (ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
- Vampire. Vampire. Vampire. Battle stations.
vampireverb/ˈvæm.paɪ.ə(ɹ)/
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To drain of energy or resources.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。