wraith

释义

n.

鬼魂

在例句中理解 2 句

1. I suppose the first time I encountered the word “wraith” was in the 70’s when I read JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

   我第一次读到wraith(鬼魂)这个词应该是在70年代，它当时出现在JRR·托尔金的《指环王》中。

2. Allen Upward wrote a sort of copycat book or parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories called Wonderful Career of Ebenezer Lobb in which he describe one of the characters as wraith-like.

   他在模仿《福尔摩斯》的山寨小说《埃比尼泽·洛布的灿烂生涯》里使用了这个词，描述一个角色“像鬼魂一般”（wraith-like）。