| 单词 | vampire |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['væmpaiə] |
| 解释 | n. 吸血鬼 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 n.吸血鬼 (one who lives by preying on others) 【记】 vamp(勾引男子的女人 )+ire |
| 字源 | vampire (n.) spectral being in a human body who maintains semblance of life by leaving the grave at night to suck the warm blood of the living as they sleep, 1734, from French vampire (18c.) or German Vampir (1732, in an account of Hungarian vampires), from Hungarian vampir, from Old Church Slavonic opiri (cognates: Serbian vampir, Bulgarian vapir, Ukrainian uper), said by Slavic linguist Franc Miklošič to be ultimtely from Kazan Tatar ubyr "witch," but Max Vasmer, an expert in this linguistic area, finds that phonetically doubtful. An Eastern European creature popularized in English by late 19c. gothic novels, however there are scattered English accounts of night-walking, blood-gorged, plague-spreading undead corpses from as far back as 1196. Figurative sense of "person who preys on others" is from 1741. Applied 1774 by French biologist Buffon to a species of South American blood-sucking bat. Related: Vampiric. |
| 不择手段背单词 | n. 吸血鬼(夜间复活的尸体去吸睡眠者的血); 敲诈勒索者 【记】v胜利的标致, ampire = empire(n 帝国): 能胜帝国的人－吸血鬼 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】音：挖皮耳，挖人皮吃血的 |
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