haunt
verb /hɔːnt/
/hɔːnt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they haunt | /hɔːnt/ /hɔːnt/ |
| he / she / it haunts | /hɔːnts/ /hɔːnts/ |
| past simple haunted | /ˈhɔːntɪd/ /ˈhɔːntɪd/ |
| past participle haunted | /ˈhɔːntɪd/ /ˈhɔːntɪd/ |
| -ing form haunting | /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ |
- haunt something/somebody if the ghost of a dead person haunts a place, people say that they have seen it there
（鬼魂）出没 - A headless rider haunts the country lanes.
一个无头骑士常出没于乡间的小路上。 - I’ll come back to haunt you!
我会回来缠着你的！
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- reputedly
- supposedly
- come back to
- return to
- A headless rider haunts the country lanes.
- haunt somebody if something unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it
（不快的事情）萦绕于脑际，使难以忘却 - The memory of that day still haunts me.
我的脑海中还常常回想起那天的情景。 - For years she was haunted by guilt.
多年来她一直感到愧疚。
- He will be haunted forever by his failed attempt to rescue the children.
未能成功解救孩子们的经历将使他永难释怀。 - These visions continued to haunt her for many years.
多年来这些景象一直在她脑海里萦绕。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- still
- forever
- continue to
- The memory of that day still haunts me.
- haunt somebody to continue to cause problems for somebody for a long time
长期不断地缠扰（某人） - That decision came back to haunt him.
那个决定对他造成无法摆脱的困扰。 - She has been haunted by her past during her career.
在她的职业生涯中，她一直被自己的过去所困扰。
- That decision came back to haunt him.
词源Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to home.