Wraith
[reɪθ] or [reθ]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [Scottish.] Apparition, vision, spectre, ghost, unreal image.
整理:蒂娜
解釋/意思:
n. a spectre: an apparition in the exact likeness of a person seen before or soon after his death.
埃文編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was not my wraith, then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Certainly the human nature that figures in most political thinking is a wraith that never was--not even in the souls of politicians. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It is to be hoped their poor wraiths got something out of the display. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
希尔达整理