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zombie

/zom-bee/US // ˈzɒm bi //UK // (ˈzɒmbɪ) //

僵尸

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mute and will-less body, robbed of its soul and given the semblance of life by a supernatural force, usually for manual labor or some evil purpose.the supernatural force itself.
    • : an undead creature with a reanimated human body, typically depicted in science fiction or horror stories as contagious to the living by bite and vulnerable only to serious head trauma: In the movie, survivors of the apocalypse try to build a barricade to keep the zombies out.
    • : Informal. a person whose behavior or responses are wooden, listless, or seemingly rote; automaton. an eccentric or peculiar person.
    • : a snake god worshiped in West Indian and Brazilian religious practices of African origin.
    • : a tall drink made typically with several kinds of rum, citrus juice, and often apricot liqueur.
    • : Canadian Slang. an army conscript assigned to home defense during World War II.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to something that was declared concluded, finished, or dead, but surprisingly continues to linger, or comes back in a different version: zombie legislation that was defeated last session;resuscitating zombie corporations through debt restructuring;a zombie ex who texts you out of the blue looking for a hookup.

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Examples

  • Derrickson was into what she calls “weirdo culture” before they started the business, mostly cosplay and zombies.

  • If even a few of these zombie-like microbes survive across geological time it has deep implications for life in the solar system and beyond.

  • Manipulation on major social channels happens frequently when people create zombie accounts to flood content with fake “likes” and “views” to affect the viewed content.

  • They suspect zombie-worm larvae drift in the water until they find some whale bones.

  • So-called “zombie fires” may be burning in Arctic peatlands, where approximately half of this summer’s fires have occurred.

  • But the title of Best Death definitely belongs to Bob Stookey, who got bitten by a zombie then captured by cannibals.

  • Their last hope for saving humanity, Eugene, turned out to be a liar with no idea how to stop the zombie virus.

  • In the respectable guise of religious liberty, the zombie-like Culture War soldiers on.

  • Ad after ad I saw described Hagan as a “rubber stamp,” almost zombie-esque follower of Obama.

  • We did a bit on the show where we talked about Republican zombie-lies—that when Republicans tell lies, they just never die.

  • It was soon plain that she was a zombie with about ten words in her vocabulary.

  • Thousands of people suddenly began marching zombie-like into the woods where they vanished into a black pit.

  • My character was a swabbie on the pirate ship Zombie Charger, and he'd wound down while I'd been offline.

  • I logged back in and there I was, still on the deck of the Zombie Charger, waiting for someone to wind me up.

  • It was as though the blow had not been struck; as though this were some kind of a moving, breathing zombie.

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