在汉语中，“鬼”并不单单表达恐怖，关于鬼的短语特别多，比如形容一个人比较胆怯，叫他胆小鬼;说一个人比较吝啬，叫他小气鬼;形容小孩子很活泼爱动，叫他调皮鬼……今天，小编就带大家看看英文中是怎么表达这些与“鬼”相关的短语说法。

　　I’m particularly fond of affix characters in Chinese, and what more vibrant an example than 鬼 (“ghost; devil”)

　　魔鬼 (“evil devil”) – demon

　　懒鬼 (“lazy devil”) – lazybones

　　酒鬼 (“alcohol ghost”) – alcoholic; drunkard

　　醉鬼 (“drunk devil”) – drunkard

　　烟鬼 (“smoke devil”) – opium addict; chain smoker

　　调皮鬼 (“naughty devil”) – naughty child

　　捣蛋鬼 (“make-trouble devil”) – same as #6

　　吸血鬼 (“suck-blood devil”) – vampire

　　鬼佬 (“devil old-guy”) – foreigner (usually derogatory)

　　胆小鬼 (“small-gut devil”) – coward; chicken

　　二鬼子 (“two-ghost-thing”) - a “banana” – someone yellow (Asian) on the outside but white (Caucasian) on the inside (derogatory)*

　　短命鬼 (“short-life devil”) – someone who dies at a young age

　　赌鬼 (“gambling ghost”) – gambling addict

　　饿鬼 (“hungry ghost”) – someone who is always hungry; someone with a big appetite

　　机灵鬼 (“clever ghost”) – clever person

　　胡涂鬼 (“confused ghost”) – someone who often seems confused and/or stupid

　　色鬼 (“lust ghost”) – lecher; person who engages in sexual excess (no exact word for this in English perhaps?)

　　厉鬼 (“terrible ghost”) – evil spirit

　　馋鬼 (“gluttonous ghost”) – pig (someone who eats too much)

　　催命鬼 (“prodding ghost”) – someone who keeps pushing people to do things; a nagger

　　死鬼 (“dead ghost”) – a negative but playful term used between spouses

　　鬼子 (“devil-thing”) – foreign devil (derogatory)

　　鬼怪 (“ghost-monster”) – ghosts and monsters

　　见鬼 (“see ghost”) – go to Hell!

　　鬼知道 (“ghost knows”) – Heaven knows!

　　中文用一个鬼字就表达出了这么多含义，这些关于“鬼”的英文说法不知道大家都学会了吗?

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