英语释义

1. belief in vampires

2. the actions of a vampire

3. a sexual perversion in which gratification is obtained by the drawing of blood

片语

extortionist勒索者；勒索钱财

英汉例句

• as vampirism spread they began to organize themselves into clans.

  作为吸血鬼的传播，他们开始氏族组织到自己。

• the curse of vampirism is but an obstacle, a hurdle before achieving true power.

  血族的诅咒乃是障碍，横亘在通往真正力量之道上的障碍。

• italian scientist ludovico fatinelli burned at the stake for suggesting a biological cause for vampirism in his 「treatise on vampires」.

  意大利科学家卢多维科fatinelli烧伤吸血鬼的股份在生物事业提出了他的「吸血鬼伤寒论」。

• when suspicion of vampirism fled though an area, it was not uncommon for the towns people to exhume the corpses of their loved ones to check for the tell tale signs of a vampire in the grave.

  当吸血鬼的故事风传到某地时，居民们常常会将逝去的亲人开棺验尸，检查是否有传说中吸血鬼的特征。

• it was not insomnia , nor did he practice vampirism , to say the very least.

  不是因为他患了失眠癥，他也不是在尝试当一只吸血鬼，至少我们可以这样说。

• stories of vampirism can be traced as far back as biblical times, with lilith the first rumored vampire.

  吸血鬼的故事可以一直追溯到圣经时代，谣传莉莉丝是吸血鬼的最初雏形。

• the belief in vampires is one of the most wide-spread of superstitions, 「real-life」 instances of vampirism having been documented for hundreds of years.

  相信吸血鬼的存在是最广为流传的迷信之一，「现实生活」中的吸血鬼实例已经被记载了几百年。