单词 | ghost man |
释义 | > as lemmasghost man c. With other nouns, with the sense ‘that is the disembodied spirit of a dead ——’, as in ghost man, ghost child, ghost dog, etc. ΚΠ 1826 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 3 Mar. The ghost boy. 1838 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 301 An impersonal ghost-hero. 1864 Murray's Handbk. Durham & Northumberland ii. 162 A ghost-dog is believed to follow the midwife when she goes to her duties through the streets of Newcastle. 1983 19th-cent. Fiction 37 519 The ghost child whom the adult narrator encounters..is also..a resurrection of an ever-present child within. 2017 E. L. Sánchez I am not your Perfect Mexican Daughter xv. 182 Our cousin Valeria told us about La Llorona, the ghost woman who wails through the streets because she drowned her own children. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。