8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies.doc

8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies 你所必知的关于僵尸的八点常识 “僵尸”这一角色似乎在当今随处可见。如在著名小说　《傲慢与偏见与僵尸》，《僵尸世界大战》，以及新一季AMC电视《行尸走肉》中都有提及。这些不得不使《纽约时报》向人们宣布“僵尸正卷土重来”。 Zombies, it seems, are everywhere these days — in popular books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and World War Z, and in the new AMC show The Walking Dead, which had the New York Times declaring that zombies are making a comeback. George Mason University anthropology professor Jeffrey Mantz teaches a class on zombies and their cultural importance. We asked him to prepare us for the invasion with this list of things everyone should know about zombies. 杰弗里?曼缇是乔治梅森大学人类学教授，并在那儿讲授有关僵尸及僵尸文化重要性的课程。我们让他给我们罗列一下我们必知的有关僵尸的常识。 1. They Are Everywhere 他们分布在世界各地 Across many cultures around the world, there is a concern that the dead could return to walk among the living. Sometimes these ghouls are merely tricksters who are having fun at our expense; other times they are vengeful creatures who were treated poorly in life and are exacting revenge. Perhaps its a mother who died in childbirth. But there are very few places in the world where you wont find them. 在全世界许多文化中，都有有关人死后会在人世间行走的说法。有时，这些僵尸只是由魔术师假扮以娱乐大众赚取我们荷包里的钱，有时只是生活窘迫的人出于报复装扮成僵尸来吓唬别人。可能这具僵尸是一个在分娩过程中死去的女人，但他们都分布在世界上那些你很难找到的地方。 2. Most Will Eat You If You Get Too Close 如果你接近他们，你就会被吃掉 These days, zombies are basically understood to be ghouls who consume the living. In fact, a large proportion of those who study zombies argue that they are basically a metaphor for consumption. George Romeros Dawn of the Dead famously suggested this, showing zombies wandering through a mall in a strangely similar way to when they were humans. 目前，僵尸被当作是吃人的食尸鬼。但许多研究僵尸的学者都称他们本质上是肺痨病人的别称。乔治?罗密欧制作的电影《活死人黎明》就向我们传递了这样的信息：僵尸仍然像他们生前那样在商场里穿行。 3. Zombies Dont Always Attack The Living 僵尸并不是总是袭击生物 In some cultures, including much of the African and Caribbean traditions from which the word zombie originated, zombies are more mindless servants that do the (more often bad, but sometimes quite neutral) bi