Haunt
[hɔːnt] or [hɔnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a frequently visited place.
(verb.) haunt like a ghost; pursue; 'Fear of illness haunts her'.
(verb.) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; 'her ex-boyfriend stalked her'; 'the ghost of her mother haunted her'.
克拉丽斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
(v. t.) To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
(v. t.) To practice; to devote one's self to.
(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate.
(v. i.) To persist in staying or visiting.
(n.) A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
(n.) The habit of resorting to a place.
(n.) Practice; skill.
艾比校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Frequent, resort to.
n. Retreat, resort, den, place much frequented.
琼整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to frequent: to follow importunately: to intrude upon continually: to inhabit or visit as a ghost.—v.i. to be much about: to appear or visit frequently.—n. a place much resorted to: (Shak.) habit of frequenting.—p.adj Haunt′ed frequented infested esp. by ghosts or apparitions.—n. Haunt′er.—adv. Haunt′ingly.
德布斯錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And why did Bretton and my fourteenth year haunt me thus? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Lina, you will haunt me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Follow her at once to her favorite haunt. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She understood that Rosedale was ready to lend her money; and the longing to take advantage of his offer began to haunt her insidiously. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He grudged the time lost between Piccadilly and his old haunt at the Slaughters', whither he drove faithfully. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Does nothing, then, haunt it, nothing inspire it? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I was haunted by the file too. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I am haunted by the fear that our coming to Milton has killed her. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The figure of my sister in her chair by the kitchen fire, haunted me night and day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- At another time we were haunted for several days by an apparition, to which our people gave the appellation of the Black Spectre. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I was so haunted at last by the idea, though I knew there was nothing in it, that I stole into the next room to look at him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that house when Estella lived there! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Their minds were haunted by the idea of sin and the need for bloody propitiations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He haunts you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Jesus was to him the Easter lamb, that traditional human victim without spot or blemish who haunts all the religions of the dark white peoples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Oh, I track the fairest fair Through new haunts of pleasure; Footprints here and echoes there Guide me to my treasure: Lo! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Was it not one of Robin Hood's haunts? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I won't shed blood; it's always found out, and haunts a man besides. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Like all party men Woodrow Wilson had thrust upon him here a danger that haunts every political program. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That summons to a new way of life haunts our world to-day, haunts wealth and comfort and every sort of success. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was as if some haunting challenge prompted her, and she had not enough courage to take it up. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Haunting every place. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A constant thought and terror is haunting her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- To have her haunting the Abbey, and thanking him all day long for his great kindness in marrying Jane? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He knew from his daughter the various towns which Rigaud had been haunting, and the various hotels at which he had been living for some time back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Are there evil influences haunting the air, and poisoning it for man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
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