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haunting ['hɒ:ntiŋ]

a. 常浮现于脑海中的, 不易忘怀的

Separatism and racial conflict has been haunting the post- cold war community.
分离主义和种族冲突一直困扰著後冷战时代的国际社会。
A haunting melody.
萦绕心头的旋律
A spectre is haunting Europe-- the spectre of Communism.
一个幽灵——共产主义幽灵——搅扰着整个欧洲。

haunting

[ adj ]

continually recurring to the mind

<adj.all>

haunting memories

the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty

having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect

<adj.all>

from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration

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.

The scenario, played out 13 years ago in what became known as the Tiananmen Incident, is being repeated with haunting similarities as students mourn former Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang and demand political reforms.
It is haunting this party.
It was a haunting sight.
In the haunting mural on the wall of the family's dimly lit workshop, the painter has pasted a small photograph of himself, which he thinks someday will commemorate his own killing.
The pounding rhythm, the haunting melody, the lyrics about imprisoned black leader Mandela, and the cheering, clapping teen-agers present an emotional scene.
John Hejduk is working with poet David Shapiro on a series of haunting sentrylike metal constructions and a spiky metal fountain.
Others called it graceful, warm, haunting and uplifting.
The Soviet Union is about to get a taste of Cajun-style diplomacy as chef John Folse carries his fiery recipes abroad and artist George Rodrigue introduces a new audience to his haunting portraits of Acadiana.
(He tries to vault the table, and fails.) When Solveig (Catherine White) arrives, quiet and soft-spoken with haunting Meryl Streep cheekbones, she is shyly luminous.
The mood may shift radically, from a comic piece in which masked performers mime animals to a haunting flute melody, but the pacing never lets up.
The temptation was alweys to go for good writing, not to go for something more haunting," Beattie said.
The resulting anxieties of Hong Kong's citizens are needless to say, considerable, and this film captures those anxieties with a haunting clarity.
But a different economic spectre is haunting the west.
The melodies are haunting and the driving 4-4 beat swings.
Aspects of the song, "Amazing Grace," are somewhat amazing themselves, and haunting.
It's supposed to be haunting, but is predictable and flat.
Fuller's haunting sculptures, notably "Mary Turner (A Silent Protest Against Mob Violence)" (1919) and "Talking Skull" (1937), are particularly moving.
But then the whole show is a series of haunting images, pictures that reinforce Kafka's striking story of what society does to those who are more than a little different.
"It's haunting and deathlike and doesn't say anything positive about the product," observes Hank Wasiak, president of the Geers Gross ad agency.
"The Deer Hunter" (1978): Michael Cimino's haunting look at the Vietnam War.
But it's unlikely the crime will ever stop dogging him or haunting his victim.
"If they hung this up near the registration desk," he says, "a lot of people wouldn't stay." Since last September, at least three unsuspecting guests in three cities have been murdered by criminals haunting Motel 6 grounds.
Nelson Bunker Hunt's attempted corner on silver a decade ago is still haunting the market in this metal.
As in the best of such pieces there is a variety of styles and attitudes: a haunting lullaby to a poem by WH Auden, conjuring its nocturnal spell over an irregular rocking rhythm, is followed by a crisp and sardonic Stevie Smith setting.
Fears that Congress may pass a restrictive trade bill also are haunting the financial markets.
But others remain haunting mysteries: Johnny Gosch, the 12-year-old Iowa paperboy, gone since 1982; Etan Patz, the 6-year-old New Yorker last seen walking to a school bus stop almost 11 years ago.
His ability to clothe the psychology of his characters in ravishing, or searing, or haunting movement, was always theatrically vivid.
Many sang the "Song of Unification," a sad and haunting melody known to all Koreans, as 200 musicians played.
And of the four fine Gauguins, it is the haunting double portrait of a gaunt Polynesian mother and her subdued but sensual grown daughter that stops you in your tracks.
The specter of the death of Communism is also haunting the remaining hard-liners among Moscow's allies.

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