vampire
吸血鬼,吸血,僵尸,殭尸
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Definitions
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- : a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- : a corpse, animated by an undeparted soul or demon, that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living, until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.
- : a person who preys ruthlessly upon others; extortionist.
- : a woman who unscrupulously exploits, ruins, or degrades the men she seduces.
- : an actress noted for her roles as an unscrupulous seductress: the vampires of the silent movies.
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Examples
What We Do in the Shadows is basically just that, but with vampires.
She describes food-sharing patterns in hunter-gatherer societies, for instance, then in the same paragraph says that “this same dynamic exists among vampire bats.”
My other horror recommendation is “Let the Right One In,” the vampire novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
To parasitic-plant specialist Chris Thorogood, “They’re vampire plants.”
The classic movie still offers some chills and established many of the visual motifs seen in contemporary vampire movies.
Mistletoe is basically a vampire—but one of those an anti-hero type vampires.
The vampire at the heart of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night neither sparkles nor sleeps in coffins.
And someone named something like, “Vampire Man Randy,” commented on it and wrote, “sex feet.”
Next door in Romania, a historical figure nicknamed Vlad the Impaler inspired the first mainstream depiction of a vampire.
He is believed to have been considered a vampire in the mid-19th century and decapitated after his death.
Even the air has its strange denizens in the guise of huge beetles and vampire-winged flying foxes.
Did you ever know a man come out to do either in a chariot and pair, you ridiculous old vampire?
And as the narrowing process progressed, she said, the exhausting or vampire quality grew and grew.
To gently destroy, sucking the vitality like a vampire and fanning the victim to dullness with its wings.
The two bones are not often found in so lateral a position, and the vampire wings are clumsy in the extreme.