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haunting

/hawn-ting, hahn-/US // ˈhɔn tɪŋ, ˈhɑn- //UK // (ˈhɔːntɪŋ) //

令人不安的,萦绕于心的,萦绕心头的,萦绕在心的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that haunts; visitation.

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Examples

  • Set in the hills of coal country, it’s the story of four siblings who cling to fading memories while wrestling with a haunting secret.

  • “All That She Carried” is organized around a rare and haunting object.

  • Above hang beautiful, glittering stars The haunting voices of ancestors remind Sayet, and all of us, of the connection between past and present.

  • In pages full of haunting illustrations, Seek You prompts readers to look inwards.

  • Cerra has been left, even as Chauvin is sentenced, with a haunting question.

  • This sultry ballad about break-ups and make-ups in the City of Angels is haunting stuff.

  • Those images you took of people saying goodbye to the bodies of their loved ones are particularly haunting.

  • A study in American military control, a haunting sui generis novel, and a playful new short story collection.

  • I ask Vlad what his worst memory was about his time in Russia, and his answers are haunting.

  • There was a feeling of sweetness and a haunting beauty in both his personality and his music.

  • Amazed, forgetful of their discomfort, the girls listened while the throbbing, haunting melody wailed itself to a close.

  • I want you to be for ever free from the haunting fear that this Anthony Riggleton shall ever cross your path.

  • It has been haunting me ever since we heard him playing that day, and yet I can't think of the name of it.

  • He found her looking paler than her wont, and there was a cloud of sadness on her brow, a haunting sadness in her eyes.

  • It is a graceful book, essentially graceful, with its haunting agreeable melancholy, its pleasing savoury of antiquity.