- 1縈繞心頭的、淒美難忘的（不是「鬧鬼」）
When a song, a place, a face, or a story is haunting, it stays in your thoughts for a long time, and there is a sad or strange beauty in it. A haunting melody can make a room go quiet. A haunting photograph can feel both lovely and a little painful. This is not the ghost meaning. The verb haunt can mean a ghost keeps visiting a house — but this adjective is about feeling: hard to forget, and not simply happy. Though actually speakers also stretch it: a haunting reminder of the war is not beautiful, but it will not leave your mind. In this entry the core is sad-and-beautiful; know the darker stretch exists. You will hear it about art, music, and memory more than about everyday tools.
From the word’s history
From haunt + -ing; haunt is from Old French hanter 'to frequent'.
由 haunt 加 -ing；haunt 源自古法文 hanter「常去某處」。
組成haunt + -ing. Here the -ing word works as an adjective (what kind of song?), not as “happening right now.”
同家族的字
- hauntthe verb at the root: to keep coming back to the mind (and also, of ghosts, to visit a place)
- hauntinglythe adverb of this same feeling
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。
hauntingadj
- 1
Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.
- He had a haunting gaze.
hauntingnoun
- 1
A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
- During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.
- They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。