| 单词 | to be haunted |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be haunted b. esp. Of imaginary or spiritual beings, ghosts, etc.: To visit frequently and habitually with manifestations of their influence and presence, usually of a molesting kind. to be haunted: to be subject to the visits and molestation of disembodied spirits. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt haunt1597 ghosta1616 sprighta1616 phantom1845 spook1883 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 154 Some haunted by the ghosts they haue deposed. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 99 O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray masters: fly masters: helpe. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. Fv Bug-beares & spirits haunted him. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 312 They were told..how there was a Chamber haunted with spirits, and strangely molested with horrible rumblings. a1679 Earl of Orrery Herod the Great (1694) iii. 25 My Ghost shall haunt thee out in every place. 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 244 It was much talked of, that spirits haunted this dungeon, and walked there. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. x. 296 We need not that boy's ghost amongst those who haunt us. 1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) vii. 21 Phantoms haunt those shadowy streets. < as lemmas |
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