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 haunted ['hɔntɪd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 常出现鬼的, 闹鬼的

  1. She claims to have seen manifestations of dead people in the haunted house.
    她说她在那闹鬼的房子里看见了死人显灵.
  2. Mr Thompson is going to sell it because it is haunted.
    "汤普森先生打算把它卖掉,是因为它好闹鬼。"
  3. I'm haunted with gloomy thoughts and sad memories.
    我常为悲观的思想和悲痛的追念所困扰。


haunted
[ adj ]
  1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

  2. <adj.all>
    became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle
    was absolutely obsessed with the girl
    got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children
    he was taken up in worry for the old woman
  3. showing emotional affliction or disquiet

  4. <adj.all>
    her expression became progressively more haunted
  5. inhabited by or as if by apparitions

  6. <adj.all>
    a haunted house


Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
(see {Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
to heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.

Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.

2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
he died.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.

3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]

That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.

4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]

Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.


Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a.
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. --Longfellow.

  1. George Bush says he is "almost haunted" by the plight of inner-city children.
  2. Being haunted _ "a thousand points of light" _ I don't know what that means.
  3. O'Connor, perhaps informed by his long association with the theatre, has the poet thumping across the stage as a maudlin penitent, haunted by the Tudors' brutal persecution of Catholicism, tormented by guilt.
  4. The alleged CIA connection has haunted Coppel and, he said, he has paid a price.
  5. Although it is reluctant to acknowledge it, the company is still haunted by its past. Twenty-two years ago, it was forced into receivership and subsequent public ownership when it attempted to enter the then rapidly expanding long-range civil jet market.
  6. When Debussy set out to make a one-acter of it, the music instead was to recreate the haunted atmosphere.
  7. "I think he'd be haunted by that, every decision he'd try to make, which doesn't make him a bad defense secretary, because he probably is the kind of tough guy we need," Durenberger said in Minneapolis.
  8. Photos by AP Staff Photographer Jeff Widener Afghan war refugees, haunted by loneliness and memories of their bombed villages, their spouses or children killed, sit for hours in the sun-baked mud homes of their camps in Pakistan.
  9. The quick smile flashes, although the eyes seem sad and almost haunted.
  10. It's a symbol for the nation." George Bush says he is "almost haunted" by inner-city children.
  11. She calls it "a story about a haunted, doomed family that lives in this big, old house." She said the house she and her husband are buying is perfect except that, unlike the house in her story, theirs has been totally renovated.
  12. The question that has haunted the debate for decades continues to hover.
  13. A policewoman full of life and laughter and a jobless Vietnam veteran haunted by the horrors of war lived worlds apart, but their worlds collided when they died side by side in a bloody rampage.
  14. Nevertheless, analysts say uncertainty about how it will go this time has lent an added element of uncertainty to a marketplace still haunted by memories of the crash last fall.
  15. The memory of those civilians and how they died has haunted many of the survivors.
  16. He seems haunted at times by the hardball tactics that led to the resignation of his former campaign manager and close adviser John Sasso and shrinks from any suggestion that he be more aggressive.
  17. A haunted synagogue was on the list.
  18. On topical subjects, Daniels' "American Farmer" focused on the plight of agriculture in the mid-1980s. "Still in Saigon" was about a former soldier haunted by his Vietnam experience.
  19. Black says she refused to date Farley but he haunted her for four years with strange gifts and threatening letters and frequently followed her.
  20. Dinkins has been haunted by the four years _ 1968-71 _ when he neglected to pay his state income taxes.
  21. Serbia's Communists brand Tudjman a fascist and a secessionist. They have orchestrated several rallies of Croatia's 450,000 Serb minority, which is haunted by memories of mass extermination in the Croatian puppet state set up by Nazi Germany.
  22. The shade of that defeat haunted ramshackle Municipal Stadium on Saturday.
  23. On other Thanksgivings, the world was haunted by the images of watchtowers, guard dogs and machine guns.
  24. There have been the tragedies - the dramatic deaths of Grace and Stefano haunted by the curse of the beautiful Flemish girl betrayed by one of Rainier's womanising predecessors who vowed 'Never will a Grimaldi find true happiness in marriage'.
  25. As discovery gets under way in the case, the company is likely to be haunted by memos that echo the charges in Mr. Tuttle's letter.
  26. The newspaper also cited unidentified sources who said Caldwell recently complained of being unable to get a job in his hometown of Latrobe and of being haunted by notoriety from the murders.
  27. Petty Officer James Hillard hasn't ventured into the haunted areas since he saw George last year while checking out odd footsteps.
  28. UNEMPLOYMENT has haunted British governments of both parties since the 1970s.
  29. Similarly pain, the other central teenage emotion, does not occur until volume 4 and Billy's Fury's brooding, haunted 'Maybe Tomorrow'.
  30. The Greenville City Council voted unanimously to settle the case, which has haunted the east Texas town for eight years.
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