Wraith
[reɪθ] or [reθ]
解释:
(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
阿玛莉亚整理
同义词及近义词:
n. [Scottish.] Apparition, vision, spectre, ghost, unreal image.
整理:蒂娜
解释:
n. a spectre: an apparition in the exact likeness of a person seen before or soon after his death.
埃文编辑
例句:
- It was not my wraith, then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Certainly the human nature that figures in most political thinking is a wraith that never was--not even in the souls of politicians. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It is to be hoped their poor wraiths got something out of the display. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
希尔达整理