- 1幽靈般的、陰森的
Ghostly means like a ghost: pale, there, a little , as if a spirit were in the room. A ghostly light, a ghostly figure, a ghostly voice. It is about the feeling of a place or a sight — quiet, thin, not quite solid — not about whether ghosts are “real.” People also stretch it a little: a ghostly silence, a ghostly smile, a ghostly likeness (so faint it feels ). You meet it more in stories than in everyday chat. It is milder than . Though actually, older English used ghostly to mean “of the spirit” or even “holy” — the church phrase Holy Ghost is that older “spirit” sense of ghost. You will still hear that in church language, but for most students today ghostly means “like a ghost.”
From the word’s history
From Old English gāstlīċ 'spiritual; ghostly', i.e. ghost + -ly.
來自古英文 gāstlīċ「屬靈的、鬼魂般的」，即 ghost 加 -ly。
組成ghost + -ly (makes an adjective: “in the manner of a ghost”). From Middle English gostly, from Old English gāstlīċ, which meant spiritual and holy as well as spectral. It matches ghost + -ly, and it is a cousin of Dutch geestelijk and German geistlich, which still mean “spiritual / of the church” rather than “spooky.”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ghostlyadj/ˈɡoʊstli/
- 1
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
- a ghostly figure with a hood
- The graveyard was haunted by a ghostly figure of a young girl.
- 2
Spooky; frightening.
- A ghostly hush fell.
- Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
- 3
archaicRelating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
- a ghostly confessor
- Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
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