Definition of zombie in English:

zombie

noun ˈzɒmbiˈzɑmbi

1A corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions.
还魂尸，僵尸（尤指非洲和加勒比海地区某些宗教中据传凭借巫术得以死而复生的尸体）
Example sentencesExamples
- And in Haiti she found eight ‘authentic cases’ of zombies, one of whom she photographed in a hospital.
- Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore.
- In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers.
- Some scientists claim that voodoo zombies are created with this toxin.
- The living dead in pop culture are no doubt inspired by the great voodoo zombie legend of Haiti in the heart of the Caribbean.
- The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged.
- In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies.
- He cleared his throat and began to read, "A zombie is an undead person in the tradition of voodoo."
- Of course, the people of Haiti claim that they see zombies very often, but no one has been able to prove it.
- Basically, it's all about consciousness, and in the voodoo religions, zombies are bodies without soul.
1. 1.1 (in popular fiction) a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh.
  a world overrun by zombies
  a horde of mindless zombies craving brains
  Example sentencesExamples
  Just hope you're better served than Christopher when your neighbors turn into brain-eating zombies.
  Anyone bitten by a zombie dies and is reanimated as one of them.
  The Earth is overrun by flesh-eating zombies, and the bunker is used for both shelter and experimentation.
  There are no vampires, werewolves, zombies, or outer space creatures.
  One can become inflicted with this malady by being bitten by zombie.
  The cops fled the scene, but not before one was bitten by the zombie.
  They seek refuge from an army of flesh-eating zombies by hiding in a shopping mall.
  His life came to an end when, after taking a bullet, he was torn apart by a horde of hungry zombies.
  The zombies are, of course, the ultimate consumers.
  Day of the Dead (1985) shows the beginnings of a new world, where survivors learn to domesticate the zombies.
  Disturbing, highly intelligent, referential to a legion of horror movies, the film is a horrifyingly bleak portrait of a Britain overrun by rabid zombies.
  Have the common courtesy to tell your fellow survivors that you've been bitten by a zombie and will probably try to eat them within the hour instead of just shrugging and hoping the problem goes away by itself.
  A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
2. 1.2informal A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings.
  〈非正式〉（显得）死气沉沉的人；（显得）麻木不仁的人
  Example sentencesExamples
  Either that or I have to start drinking more and get used to feeling like a damn zombie the next day.
  That junk food-munching young zombie who is watching a burping contest on AXN, is pure gold for the advertiser.
  It needs to be said at this point that I am NOT inferring that all people in these countries are poor, ignorant zombies.
  Now I face a mystery tour on a ropey coach: I'm going to be a zombie all day, and in grave danger of slumping into my gravy over lunch.
  Not many like to go there, because it can be an unnerving experience, the officials more often than not appearing like zombies who cannot even hear applicants.
  This argument assumes, of course, that everyone who smokes marijuana will become some sort of zombie, and as such is a worst-case scenario.
  This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies.
  As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts.
  One woman described herself as a ‘walking zombie for a week and a half’ as she waited for her biopsy results.
  I stopped… progressing for a while, a sort of zombie of my former self.
  And before any brainwashed zombie starts screaming that I am trivialising rape, it is this very situation which is doing so.
3. 1.3Philosophy A hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness.
  Example sentencesExamples
  That's the sort of idea of the philosopher's zombie, there could be two Sues and one would be conscious and the other wouldn't.
  Among the metaphysical arguments that have been given in support of such claims are those that appeal to intuitions about the conceivability and logical possibility of zombies.
  So if the zombie hypothesis is correct, physicalism is false.
  While the zombie argument raises a problem for physicalism's metaphysical claims about the relations between mind and body, the explanatory gap argument raises a problem for physicalism's understanding of consciousness.
  The zombie intuitions on which such arguments rely are controversial and their soundness remains in dispute.
  What we are supposing to be absent in the zombie's mind is just phenomenal consciousness.
  Nothing in the zombie theory explains why they act the way they do, unless we hypothesize the existence of unseen causes, demonic puppet masters, or the like.
  The existence of zombies would be a clear counter-example to this metaphysical determination.
  This is a being that would be hugely different behaviorally from a normal human being, an unmotivated, listless vegetable, while a philosopher's zombie, by definition, is as lively and (apparently) motivated as anybody could be.
  When one imagines the zombie, one cannot be imagining something for which it only seems like it lacks the feeling of pain (say), but really it is in pain: for anything which is really in pain can never seem to lack the feeling of pain!
4. 1.4 A computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities.
  （为黑客所控用来发送垃圾邮件等非法活动的）肉机
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hackers create zombies by scanning for exposed systems that they can manipulate remotely.
  A British teenager has been convicted for distributing the Randex computer worm, designed to turn innocent infected computers into compromised "zombies" under the control of remote hackers.
  The zombies mount attacks by flooding servers with traffic til they can't cope.
  Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats.
  Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week.
  Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back.
  Malware authors are creating 150 zombies a week.
  Around one in three of the zombies linked to phishing by CipherTrust are based in the US.
  Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information.
  It identifies machines that could be zombies by inspecting thousands of messages.
2A cocktail consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.
（由若干种朗姆酒加利口酒和果汁的）还魂神力鸡尾酒
Example sentencesExamples
- Try drinking the Zombie, but don't have too many.

Derivatives

zombielike

adjective

Charles is medicated to a zombielike mellowness and has neither held down a job nor moved out of his mother's house in Philadelphia.
Example sentencesExamples
- Set inside a cartoonlike house, the works show Brown standing or sitting with the zombielike cool of a numbed survivor.
- He seemed very strange, anaesthetized and zombielike.
- He switched on the bedside lamp and, after a count of three, in one slow zombielike movement - as if any lapse in momentum might cause him to collapse back onto the mattress - he sat up.
- This morning, I stumble downstairs in the zombielike pre-coffee state and wander aimlessly around the kitchen.

Origin

Early 19th century: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi 'fetish'.

This is of West African origin; Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish’ is a related form. Figurative use meaning ‘dull, slow-witted person’ is found from the 1930s.

Definition of zombie in US English:

zombie

nounˈzɑmbiˈzämbē

1A corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions.
还魂尸，僵尸（尤指非洲和加勒比海地区某些宗教中据传凭借巫术得以死而复生的尸体）
Example sentencesExamples
- And in Haiti she found eight ‘authentic cases’ of zombies, one of whom she photographed in a hospital.
- Basically, it's all about consciousness, and in the voodoo religions, zombies are bodies without soul.
- The living dead in pop culture are no doubt inspired by the great voodoo zombie legend of Haiti in the heart of the Caribbean.
- The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged.
- Some scientists claim that voodoo zombies are created with this toxin.
- Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore.
- In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies.
- In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers.
- He cleared his throat and began to read, "A zombie is an undead person in the tradition of voodoo."
- Of course, the people of Haiti claim that they see zombies very often, but no one has been able to prove it.
1. 1.1 (in popular fiction) a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh.
  a world overrun by zombies
  a horde of mindless zombies craving brains
  Example sentencesExamples
  A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
  Disturbing, highly intelligent, referential to a legion of horror movies, the film is a horrifyingly bleak portrait of a Britain overrun by rabid zombies.
  Day of the Dead (1985) shows the beginnings of a new world, where survivors learn to domesticate the zombies.
  Just hope you're better served than Christopher when your neighbors turn into brain-eating zombies.
  His life came to an end when, after taking a bullet, he was torn apart by a horde of hungry zombies.
  Anyone bitten by a zombie dies and is reanimated as one of them.
  The zombies are, of course, the ultimate consumers.
  Have the common courtesy to tell your fellow survivors that you've been bitten by a zombie and will probably try to eat them within the hour instead of just shrugging and hoping the problem goes away by itself.
  The Earth is overrun by flesh-eating zombies, and the bunker is used for both shelter and experimentation.
  One can become inflicted with this malady by being bitten by zombie.
  The cops fled the scene, but not before one was bitten by the zombie.
  They seek refuge from an army of flesh-eating zombies by hiding in a shopping mall.
  There are no vampires, werewolves, zombies, or outer space creatures.
2. 1.2informal A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings.
  〈非正式〉（显得）死气沉沉的人；（显得）麻木不仁的人
  Example sentencesExamples
  As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts.
  And before any brainwashed zombie starts screaming that I am trivialising rape, it is this very situation which is doing so.
  This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies.
  Either that or I have to start drinking more and get used to feeling like a damn zombie the next day.
  Not many like to go there, because it can be an unnerving experience, the officials more often than not appearing like zombies who cannot even hear applicants.
  One woman described herself as a ‘walking zombie for a week and a half’ as she waited for her biopsy results.
  It needs to be said at this point that I am NOT inferring that all people in these countries are poor, ignorant zombies.
  Now I face a mystery tour on a ropey coach: I'm going to be a zombie all day, and in grave danger of slumping into my gravy over lunch.
  That junk food-munching young zombie who is watching a burping contest on AXN, is pure gold for the advertiser.
  This argument assumes, of course, that everyone who smokes marijuana will become some sort of zombie, and as such is a worst-case scenario.
  I stopped… progressing for a while, a sort of zombie of my former self.
3. 1.3Philosophy A hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Among the metaphysical arguments that have been given in support of such claims are those that appeal to intuitions about the conceivability and logical possibility of zombies.
  When one imagines the zombie, one cannot be imagining something for which it only seems like it lacks the feeling of pain (say), but really it is in pain: for anything which is really in pain can never seem to lack the feeling of pain!
  The zombie intuitions on which such arguments rely are controversial and their soundness remains in dispute.
  While the zombie argument raises a problem for physicalism's metaphysical claims about the relations between mind and body, the explanatory gap argument raises a problem for physicalism's understanding of consciousness.
  That's the sort of idea of the philosopher's zombie, there could be two Sues and one would be conscious and the other wouldn't.
  Nothing in the zombie theory explains why they act the way they do, unless we hypothesize the existence of unseen causes, demonic puppet masters, or the like.
  The existence of zombies would be a clear counter-example to this metaphysical determination.
  What we are supposing to be absent in the zombie's mind is just phenomenal consciousness.
  So if the zombie hypothesis is correct, physicalism is false.
  This is a being that would be hugely different behaviorally from a normal human being, an unmotivated, listless vegetable, while a philosopher's zombie, by definition, is as lively and (apparently) motivated as anybody could be.
4. 1.4 A computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities.
  （为黑客所控用来发送垃圾邮件等非法活动的）肉机
  Example sentencesExamples
  Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information.
  Around one in three of the zombies linked to phishing by CipherTrust are based in the US.
  Hackers create zombies by scanning for exposed systems that they can manipulate remotely.
  Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats.
  A British teenager has been convicted for distributing the Randex computer worm, designed to turn innocent infected computers into compromised "zombies" under the control of remote hackers.
  Malware authors are creating 150 zombies a week.
  It identifies machines that could be zombies by inspecting thousands of messages.
  Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week.
  Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back.
  The zombies mount attacks by flooding servers with traffic til they can't cope.
2A tall mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.
（由若干种朗姆酒加利口酒和果汁的）还魂神力鸡尾酒
Example sentencesExamples
- Try drinking the Zombie, but don't have too many.

Origin

Early 19th century: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish’.

单词	zombie
释义	Definition of zombie in English: zombie noun ˈzɒmbiˈzɑmbi 1A corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions. 还魂尸，僵尸（尤指非洲和加勒比海地区某些宗教中据传凭借巫术得以死而复生的尸体） Example sentencesExamples And in Haiti she found eight ‘authentic cases’ of zombies, one of whom she photographed in a hospital. Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore. In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers. Some scientists claim that voodoo zombies are created with this toxin. The living dead in pop culture are no doubt inspired by the great voodoo zombie legend of Haiti in the heart of the Caribbean. The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged. In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies. He cleared his throat and began to read, "A zombie is an undead person in the tradition of voodoo." Of course, the people of Haiti claim that they see zombies very often, but no one has been able to prove it. Basically, it's all about consciousness, and in the voodoo religions, zombies are bodies without soul. 1.1 (in popular fiction) a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh. a world overrun by zombies a horde of mindless zombies craving brains Example sentencesExamples Just hope you're better served than Christopher when your neighbors turn into brain-eating zombies. Anyone bitten by a zombie dies and is reanimated as one of them. The Earth is overrun by flesh-eating zombies, and the bunker is used for both shelter and experimentation. There are no vampires, werewolves, zombies, or outer space creatures. One can become inflicted with this malady by being bitten by zombie. The cops fled the scene, but not before one was bitten by the zombie. They seek refuge from an army of flesh-eating zombies by hiding in a shopping mall. His life came to an end when, after taking a bullet, he was torn apart by a horde of hungry zombies. The zombies are, of course, the ultimate consumers. Day of the Dead (1985) shows the beginnings of a new world, where survivors learn to domesticate the zombies. Disturbing, highly intelligent, referential to a legion of horror movies, the film is a horrifyingly bleak portrait of a Britain overrun by rabid zombies. Have the common courtesy to tell your fellow survivors that you've been bitten by a zombie and will probably try to eat them within the hour instead of just shrugging and hoping the problem goes away by itself. A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies. 1.2informal A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. 〈非正式〉（显得）死气沉沉的人；（显得）麻木不仁的人 Example sentencesExamples Either that or I have to start drinking more and get used to feeling like a damn zombie the next day. That junk food-munching young zombie who is watching a burping contest on AXN, is pure gold for the advertiser. It needs to be said at this point that I am NOT inferring that all people in these countries are poor, ignorant zombies. Now I face a mystery tour on a ropey coach: I'm going to be a zombie all day, and in grave danger of slumping into my gravy over lunch. Not many like to go there, because it can be an unnerving experience, the officials more often than not appearing like zombies who cannot even hear applicants. This argument assumes, of course, that everyone who smokes marijuana will become some sort of zombie, and as such is a worst-case scenario. This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies. As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts. One woman described herself as a ‘walking zombie for a week and a half’ as she waited for her biopsy results. I stopped… progressing for a while, a sort of zombie of my former self. And before any brainwashed zombie starts screaming that I am trivialising rape, it is this very situation which is doing so. 1.3Philosophy A hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness. Example sentencesExamples That's the sort of idea of the philosopher's zombie, there could be two Sues and one would be conscious and the other wouldn't. Among the metaphysical arguments that have been given in support of such claims are those that appeal to intuitions about the conceivability and logical possibility of zombies. So if the zombie hypothesis is correct, physicalism is false. While the zombie argument raises a problem for physicalism's metaphysical claims about the relations between mind and body, the explanatory gap argument raises a problem for physicalism's understanding of consciousness. The zombie intuitions on which such arguments rely are controversial and their soundness remains in dispute. What we are supposing to be absent in the zombie's mind is just phenomenal consciousness. Nothing in the zombie theory explains why they act the way they do, unless we hypothesize the existence of unseen causes, demonic puppet masters, or the like. The existence of zombies would be a clear counter-example to this metaphysical determination. This is a being that would be hugely different behaviorally from a normal human being, an unmotivated, listless vegetable, while a philosopher's zombie, by definition, is as lively and (apparently) motivated as anybody could be. When one imagines the zombie, one cannot be imagining something for which it only seems like it lacks the feeling of pain (say), but really it is in pain: for anything which is really in pain can never seem to lack the feeling of pain! 1.4 A computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities. （为黑客所控用来发送垃圾邮件等非法活动的）肉机 Example sentencesExamples Hackers create zombies by scanning for exposed systems that they can manipulate remotely. A British teenager has been convicted for distributing the Randex computer worm, designed to turn innocent infected computers into compromised "zombies" under the control of remote hackers. The zombies mount attacks by flooding servers with traffic til they can't cope. Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats. Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week. Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back. Malware authors are creating 150 zombies a week. Around one in three of the zombies linked to phishing by CipherTrust are based in the US. Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information. It identifies machines that could be zombies by inspecting thousands of messages. 2A cocktail consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice. （由若干种朗姆酒加利口酒和果汁的）还魂神力鸡尾酒 Example sentencesExamples Try drinking the Zombie, but don't have too many. Derivatives zombielike adjective Charles is medicated to a zombielike mellowness and has neither held down a job nor moved out of his mother's house in Philadelphia. Example sentencesExamples Set inside a cartoonlike house, the works show Brown standing or sitting with the zombielike cool of a numbed survivor. He seemed very strange, anaesthetized and zombielike. He switched on the bedside lamp and, after a count of three, in one slow zombielike movement - as if any lapse in momentum might cause him to collapse back onto the mattress - he sat up. This morning, I stumble downstairs in the zombielike pre-coffee state and wander aimlessly around the kitchen. Origin Early 19th century: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi 'fetish'. This is of West African origin; Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish’ is a related form. Figurative use meaning ‘dull, slow-witted person’ is found from the 1930s. Definition of zombie in US English: zombie nounˈzɑmbiˈzämbē 1A corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, especially in certain African and Caribbean religions. 还魂尸，僵尸（尤指非洲和加勒比海地区某些宗教中据传凭借巫术得以死而复生的尸体） Example sentencesExamples And in Haiti she found eight ‘authentic cases’ of zombies, one of whom she photographed in a hospital. Basically, it's all about consciousness, and in the voodoo religions, zombies are bodies without soul. The living dead in pop culture are no doubt inspired by the great voodoo zombie legend of Haiti in the heart of the Caribbean. The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged. Some scientists claim that voodoo zombies are created with this toxin. Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore. In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies. In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers. He cleared his throat and began to read, "A zombie is an undead person in the tradition of voodoo." Of course, the people of Haiti claim that they see zombies very often, but no one has been able to prove it. 1.1 (in popular fiction) a person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought, which feeds on human flesh. a world overrun by zombies a horde of mindless zombies craving brains Example sentencesExamples A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies. Disturbing, highly intelligent, referential to a legion of horror movies, the film is a horrifyingly bleak portrait of a Britain overrun by rabid zombies. Day of the Dead (1985) shows the beginnings of a new world, where survivors learn to domesticate the zombies. Just hope you're better served than Christopher when your neighbors turn into brain-eating zombies. His life came to an end when, after taking a bullet, he was torn apart by a horde of hungry zombies. Anyone bitten by a zombie dies and is reanimated as one of them. The zombies are, of course, the ultimate consumers. Have the common courtesy to tell your fellow survivors that you've been bitten by a zombie and will probably try to eat them within the hour instead of just shrugging and hoping the problem goes away by itself. The Earth is overrun by flesh-eating zombies, and the bunker is used for both shelter and experimentation. One can become inflicted with this malady by being bitten by zombie. The cops fled the scene, but not before one was bitten by the zombie. They seek refuge from an army of flesh-eating zombies by hiding in a shopping mall. There are no vampires, werewolves, zombies, or outer space creatures. 1.2informal A person who is or appears lifeless, apathetic, or completely unresponsive to their surroundings. 〈非正式〉（显得）死气沉沉的人；（显得）麻木不仁的人 Example sentencesExamples As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts. And before any brainwashed zombie starts screaming that I am trivialising rape, it is this very situation which is doing so. This is not to say that they are leading meaningful lives, but they are not necessarily lunatics, morons, or zombies. Either that or I have to start drinking more and get used to feeling like a damn zombie the next day. Not many like to go there, because it can be an unnerving experience, the officials more often than not appearing like zombies who cannot even hear applicants. One woman described herself as a ‘walking zombie for a week and a half’ as she waited for her biopsy results. It needs to be said at this point that I am NOT inferring that all people in these countries are poor, ignorant zombies. Now I face a mystery tour on a ropey coach: I'm going to be a zombie all day, and in grave danger of slumping into my gravy over lunch. That junk food-munching young zombie who is watching a burping contest on AXN, is pure gold for the advertiser. This argument assumes, of course, that everyone who smokes marijuana will become some sort of zombie, and as such is a worst-case scenario. I stopped… progressing for a while, a sort of zombie of my former self. 1.3Philosophy A hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness. Example sentencesExamples Among the metaphysical arguments that have been given in support of such claims are those that appeal to intuitions about the conceivability and logical possibility of zombies. When one imagines the zombie, one cannot be imagining something for which it only seems like it lacks the feeling of pain (say), but really it is in pain: for anything which is really in pain can never seem to lack the feeling of pain! The zombie intuitions on which such arguments rely are controversial and their soundness remains in dispute. While the zombie argument raises a problem for physicalism's metaphysical claims about the relations between mind and body, the explanatory gap argument raises a problem for physicalism's understanding of consciousness. That's the sort of idea of the philosopher's zombie, there could be two Sues and one would be conscious and the other wouldn't. Nothing in the zombie theory explains why they act the way they do, unless we hypothesize the existence of unseen causes, demonic puppet masters, or the like. The existence of zombies would be a clear counter-example to this metaphysical determination. What we are supposing to be absent in the zombie's mind is just phenomenal consciousness. So if the zombie hypothesis is correct, physicalism is false. This is a being that would be hugely different behaviorally from a normal human being, an unmotivated, listless vegetable, while a philosopher's zombie, by definition, is as lively and (apparently) motivated as anybody could be. 1.4 A computer controlled by another person without the owner's knowledge and used for sending spam or other illegal or illicit activities. （为黑客所控用来发送垃圾邮件等非法活动的）肉机 Example sentencesExamples Zombies can be used by criminal hackers to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, spread spam messages or to steal confidential information. Around one in three of the zombies linked to phishing by CipherTrust are based in the US. Hackers create zombies by scanning for exposed systems that they can manipulate remotely. Spam zombies are part of a new generation of Internet-borne threats. A British teenager has been convicted for distributing the Randex computer worm, designed to turn innocent infected computers into compromised "zombies" under the control of remote hackers. Malware authors are creating 150 zombies a week. It identifies machines that could be zombies by inspecting thousands of messages. Malicious programs capable of turning home PCs into zombies controlled by hackers are growing at between 150 to 200 per week. Previously it was fairly trivial to locate a zombie running on an infected Windows machine, by just tracing the source IP back. The zombies mount attacks by flooding servers with traffic til they can't cope. 2A tall mixed drink consisting of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice. （由若干种朗姆酒加利口酒和果汁的）还魂神力鸡尾酒 Example sentencesExamples Try drinking the Zombie, but don't have too many. Origin Early 19th century: of West African origin; compare with Kikongo zumbi ‘fetish’.
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