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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.
In stories在故事裡 a vampire is a dead person who does not stay dead吸血鬼是一個死了卻不肯保持死亡狀態的人。At night it comes out晚上牠會出來 bites people on the neck咬人的脖子 and drinks their blood然後喝他們的血。The old rules say舊的規則說 a vampire cannot go out in sunlight吸血鬼不能在陽光下出門 has no reflection in a mirror在鏡子裡沒有倒影 hates garlic and the cross討厭大蒜和十字架 sleeps in a coffin睡在棺材裡 and can be killed with a wooden stake through the heart而且可以用木樁刺穿心臟殺死 but every book and film changes the rules a little不過每本書、每部電影都會稍微改一下規則 so nobody can really tell you the ‘correct’ ones所以沒有人能真的告訴你哪個才是「正確」的規則。
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.
The word is a countable noun這個字是可數名詞 (a vampire, two vampires)（a vampire, two vampires） and works as an adjective in front of other nouns too也可以當形容詞放在其他名詞前面 vampire film, vampire batvampire 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.
Outside stories在故事之外 people use it for a person or thing that slowly takes your energy, your money or your time人們用這個字指慢慢耗掉你的精力、金錢，或時間的人或東西 ‘that job is a vampire’「that job is a vampire」。There is also an old-fashioned verb還有一個老派的動詞用法 to vampire somethingto vampire something meaning to drain it意思是把某個東西榨乾 you will rarely meet it你很少會遇到這個用法。
One real animal carries the name: the vampire bat of Central and South America, which really does drink blood, mostly from cattle.
One real animal carries the name有一種真正的動物用了這個名字 the vampire bat of Central and South America中南美洲的vampire bat which really does drink blood牠真的會喝血 mostly from cattle大多是喝牛的血。
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.
同家族的字
- 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，原文照列，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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。