a ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death (迷信传说在人临死前或死后不久看到的)活人灵魂;阴魂,鬼,幽灵 ■used in similes and metaphors to describe a pale, thin, or insubstantial person or thing [用在明喻或隐喻中]瘦得不成样子的人(或物) heart attacks had reduced his mother to a wraith. 心脏病使得他的母亲瘦得不成人形。 ■(poetic/literary)a wisp or faint trace of something (诗/文)一缕淡淡的物;依稀可辨的东西 a sea breeze was sending a grey wraith of smoke up the slopes. 海上清风拂过,一缕淡淡的青烟从大陆坡上升起。
派生 wraithlike adjective 语源
early 16th cent. (originally Scots): of unknown origin