Wraith

(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.

(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.

阿玛莉亚整理

• It was not my wraith, then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Certainly the human nature that figures in most political thinking is a wraith that never was--not even in the souls of politicians. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It is to be hoped their poor wraiths got something out of the display. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

希尔达整理