zombieの意味・使い方・発音

zombie

英 ['zɒmbɪ] 美 ['zɑmbi]

ゾンビ

西アフリカの言葉で、もともとは蛇神を意味するが、後にゾンビを指すようになった。

zombie: zombie: [19] Zombie was originally the name of a snake-god in the voodoo cult of West Africa, and later of the Caribbean, and it comes from a West African language (it is related to Kongo nzambi ‘god’ and zumbi ‘fetish’). It was later applied to a reanimated corpse in the voodoo cult, and a ghoulish sense of humour transferred the English word in the 1930s to a ‘catatonically slow-witted person’.
zombie (n.): 1871, of West African origin (compare Kikongo zumbi "fetish;" Kimbundu nzambi "god"), originally the name of a snake god, later with meaning "reanimated corpse" in voodoo cult. But perhaps also from Louisiana creole word meaning "phantom, ghost," from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost." Sense "slow-witted person" is recorded from 1936.

2.I didn 't want to do anything，I just sat at home and vegetated.I became a total zombie .: 私は何もしたくありません。ただ家に座って、退屈な生活をしています。私は完全に生ける屍になった。

＜dl>＜dt＞3.His nights filled with dreams，his days with work-just like a zombie .

夜のことを夢に任せ、昼のことは手足に任せて、彼はまるで仕事ができる死人のようだ。

4.He looked like a zombie the morning after he went out drinking.: 飲みに出かけた翌朝、彼はゾンビのように無気力に見えた。

ホーレイクは異なり、いずれの点でも効率を追求する愚かな才能の裏返しである。