英语词汇“to lay a ghost”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to lay a ghost.

(a) To stop a ghost which is believed to haunt a place or person from manifesting, typically by performing a religious ceremony or other ritual. See also to lay a ghost to rest at Phrases 1d.figurative in quot. 1676.

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1676 Lett. & Poems in Honour Dutchess of Newcastle 157 One Lady's pregnant Brain has slain whole hosts Of Rabbys, and quite laid their Paper ghosts, Which haunted all our Studies.

1682 N. Crouch Wonderful Prodigies Judgment & Mercy v. 125 He hired Conjurers to lay the Ghost of his Mother.

1716 J. Addison Drummer ii. 20 He knows the Secret of laying Ghosts, or of quieting Houses that are haunted.

1885 J. G. Whittier Let. June in Writings (1889) VI. 314 A Newbury minister..rode..over to Hampton to lay a ghost who had materialized himself.

2008 ETC: Rev. Gen. Semantics Apr. 150 I used to laugh at ghost-laying until I was faced during World War II with having to lay a ghost in a house in southern England.

(b) figurative. To reconcile oneself to the memory of an unpleasant or traumatic incident or period; to put such a memory behind one. Also occasionally: to resolve a controversial issue completely; to put such a controversy behind one. Cf. the more common to lay a ghost to rest at Phrases 1d(b).

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1800 Porcupine 16 Dec. He hoped..that their decision..would ratify the former verdict, and lay the ghost of average loss at rest forever in the Red Sea.

1843 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 12 i. 113 It is not my intention to raise, or lay the ghosts of departed objections.

1903 M. Simmins in Daily Mail 8 June 7/5 Be my wife and put an end to the matter; lay the ghosts of the past.

2001 A. Taylor Death's Own Door (2002) xvi. 108 She had not been back to Trenalt quarry since that picnic in the summer of 1938. It occurred to her with the force of a revelation that sometimes you had to go back if you wanted to lay ghosts.

单词	to lay a ghost
释义	> as lemmas to lay a ghost b. to lay a ghost. (a) To stop a ghost which is believed to haunt a place or person from manifesting, typically by performing a religious ceremony or other ritual. See also to lay a ghost to rest at Phrases 1d.figurative in quot. 1676. ΚΠ 1676 Lett. & Poems in Honour Dutchess of Newcastle 157 One Lady's pregnant Brain has slain whole hosts Of Rabbys, and quite laid their Paper ghosts, Which haunted all our Studies. 1682 N. Crouch Wonderful Prodigies Judgment & Mercy v. 125 He hired Conjurers to lay the Ghost of his Mother. 1716 J. Addison Drummer ii. 20 He knows the Secret of laying Ghosts, or of quieting Houses that are haunted. 1885 J. G. Whittier Let. June in Writings (1889) VI. 314 A Newbury minister..rode..over to Hampton to lay a ghost who had materialized himself. 2008 ETC: Rev. Gen. Semantics Apr. 150 I used to laugh at ghost-laying until I was faced during World War II with having to lay a ghost in a house in southern England. (b) figurative. To reconcile oneself to the memory of an unpleasant or traumatic incident or period; to put such a memory behind one. Also occasionally: to resolve a controversial issue completely; to put such a controversy behind one. Cf. the more common to lay a ghost to rest at Phrases 1d(b). ΚΠ 1800 Porcupine 16 Dec. He hoped..that their decision..would ratify the former verdict, and lay the ghost of average loss at rest forever in the Red Sea. 1843 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 12 i. 113 It is not my intention to raise, or lay the ghosts of departed objections. 1903 M. Simmins in Daily Mail 8 June 7/5 Be my wife and put an end to the matter; lay the ghosts of the past. 2001 A. Taylor Death's Own Door (2002) xvi. 108 She had not been back to Trenalt quarry since that picnic in the summer of 1938. It occurred to her with the force of a revelation that sometimes you had to go back if you wanted to lay ghosts. extracted from ghostn.adj. < as lemmas
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