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汉代对“鬼”的定义如下：

一些宗教或迷信人士所说的死后灵魂。

而且从“鬼”字的构成来看，它属于象形文字：

汉篆体鬼字

在甲骨文字形中，下面有一个“人”，看起来很像一个可怕的头(不是“田”)，是人们想象中非人的怪物。字形的下半部分看起来像人形，表示人死后变成鬼，头特别大，怪怪的，让人觉得害怕。鬼是汉字的偏旁部首之一，

“鬼”字多与迷信、鬼有关。

甲骨文风格的鬼字

科学研究表明，鬼只存在于人的大脑中。经过大规模的科学调查，科学家得出结论，“鬼”是不存在的，“闹鬼”是环境和心理作用造成的。

不管科学与迷信，“鬼”文化其实是存在的，“鬼”文化并没有随着时代的变迁而消亡，只是以不同的方式和形式流传下来。

在英语国家的文化中，有很大比例的“鬼”文化。不说别的，关于“鬼”的英语词汇非常丰富。让我们来看看以下常见的“鬼”字：

英语单词

英语口译

中文意思

ghost

A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.

鬼；幽灵

spirit

A spirit is a ghost or supernatural being.

鬼；精神

demon

A demon is an evil spirit.

魔鬼；家伙

devil

A devil is an evil spirit.

魔鬼；撒旦

phantom

A phantom is a ghost.

幻影；幽灵

shadow

A shadow is a ghost

鬼；幽灵

soul

Your soul is the part of you that consists of your mind, character, thoughts, and feelings. Many people believe that your soul continues existing after your body is dead.

鬼；灵魂

specter

A specter is a ghost. Also, spectre (British English)

鬼；巨大的

vampire

A vampire is a creature in legends and horror stories. Vampires are said to come out of graves at night and suck the blood of living people.

吸血鬼；吸血蝙蝠

apparition

An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.

鬼；幽灵

banshee

In Irish folk stories, a banshee is a female spirit who warns you by her long, sad cry that someone in your family is going to die.=banshie

一个妖精

daemon

A daemon is any of the secondary divinities ranking between the gods and men

半神半人；家伙

haunt

A haunt is a ghost.

鬼；幽灵

kelpie

(in Scottish folklore) a water spirit in the form of a horse that drowns its riders

马形水鬼；水妖

manes

the spirits of the dead, often revered as minor deities

冥界之神；灵魂

phantasm

a phantom

幻影；幽灵

poltergeist

A poltergeist is a ghost or supernatural force which is believed to move furniture or throw objects around.

窄鬼；闹鬼

revenant

something, esp a ghost, that returns

鬼；死者的灵魂

shade

The shade of a dead person is their spirit, which is thought to be still alive in some way and in contact with the real world.

鬼；幽灵

spook

a ghost or a person suggestive of this

鬼；鬼魂和怪物

wraith

a ghost or any apparition

鬼；死者的灵魂

zombie

In horror stories and some religions, a zombie is a dead person who has been brought back to life.

僵尸；行尸走肉

eidolon

an image without real existence; phantom; apparition

鬼；巨大的

sylph

any of a class of imaginary beings assumed to inhabit the air

空中精灵

jinn

an evil spirit that can look like a human or an animal and that uses its special powers to influence people

神灵；家伙

incubus

a demon believed in folklore to lie upon sleeping persons, esp to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women

梦妖

genie

In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it.

怪物；幽灵

dryad

any of the nymphs living in trees

森林的精神

doppelganger

a ghostly duplicate of a living person

鬼；二重身(德国传说中长得像自己的怪物，见到就死)

以上词汇并没有穷尽“鬼”这个英语词汇。事实上，据说英语中有成千上万个关于“鬼”的单词。这些词不仅来自英美的“鬼”文化，还借鉴了世界其他国家的“鬼”文化。但是仅仅从这些词中，

你已经可以看到英语中鬼文化的丰富性了。

这个节选当然不是为了宣扬“鬼”文化；就当是漫漫英语学习路上的调味品吧！

也是为了配合清明节的主题！

思维有点跳跃——

说到“鬼”电影，我首先想到的是好莱坞经典爱情鬼片《人鬼情未了》，英文名是Ghost。

至今难忘的是电影女主角的扮演者黛米摩尔(Demi Moore)在失去爱人山姆后流下的眼泪：

以及电影《Unchained Melody》的主题曲(奔放的旋律):

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