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Wight is a very old, mostly literary English word for a living creature or a person. You almost never hear it in normal daily conversation - you'll mostly find it in old poems, or in fantasy novels, games, and shows, where writers like the old-fashioned feel it gives, sometimes for spooky, undead creatures (like the walking dead in some fantasy stories). On its own, without a fantasy story around it, it just meant an ordinary person, often with a word in front of it, like 'a poor wight' meaning an unlucky person.
(古語)人;生物;(奇幻作品)不死生物
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
Wightname詞源 1
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The Isle of Wight.
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A sea area comprising part of the English Channel, from the southern English coast down to Normandy.
Wightname詞源 2
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A surname.
wightnoun詞源 1/waɪt/
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archaicA living creature, especially a human being.
- O bace gongarian wight, wilt thou the ſpicket willd?
- Oh ſay me true if thou wert mortal wight And why from us ſo quickly thou didſt take thy flight.
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lifestylepaganismreligionA supernatural being, often used in compounds such as the land-vættr which guard the land, especially the four guardians of Iceland.
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A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
- But I saw a glow-worm near, / Who replied: ‘What wailing wight / Calls the watchman of the night?
- “In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant—“it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”
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fantasyA wraith-like creature.
wightadj詞源 2/waɪt/
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archaicBrave, valorous, strong.
- I haue two sones that were but late made knyghtes / and the eldest hyghte sir Tirre /[…]/ and my yongest sone hyght Lauayne / and yf hit please yow / he shalle ryde with yow vnto that Iustes / and he is of his age x stronge and wyght
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obsoletedialectalStrong; stout; active.
- Then spake Much the milner son, / Ever more well him betide! / ‘Take twelve of thy wight yeomen, / Well weapon’d by thy side. / Such one would thyselfë slon, / That twelve dare not abide.’
- Ye do you to my father's stable, / Where steeds do stand baith wight and able; / Strike ane o' them upo' the back, / The swiftest will gie his head a wap.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。