night-stalker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is habitually abroad at night, especially in order to conduct illegal business.
    — [S]he accordingly proceeded with unrelaxed rapidity, startling the deer who came out into the open plots to browze, or scaring their lurking enemy the night-stalker, who, with his toils and engines, concealed himself in the adjoining bushes, that he might ensnare and carry off the fattest of the herd.
  2. A monster or other malevolent figure that moves about at night; a shadow-stalker.
    — “Thou wilt have no need to bury me, for if I get my death he will have eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear away my gory corpse, he will taste me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.”

词形变化

night-stalkers plural
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