haunt
要点しばしば行く、付きまとう
意味
- …にしばしば行く
- 《しばしば受動態で》(幽霊などが)…に出没する
- 《通例受動態で》〈考え・思い出などが〉〈人・人の心〉に付きまとう
- 人がよく行く場所,人の集まる所
例文
My past indiscretions are coming back to haunt me.
過去の過ちが迫ってくる。
He used to haunt those caves as a little boy.
彼は子供のころその岩穴によく行った。
That bar is one of his favorite haunts.
あのバーは彼が良く顔を出すお気に入りの場所である。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English haunten (“to reside, inhabit, use, employ”), from Old French hanter (“to inhabit, frequent, resort to”), from Old Northern French hanter (“to go back home, frequent”), from Old Norse heimta (“to bring home, fetch”) or/and from Old English hāmettan (“to bring home; house; cohabit with”); both from Proto-Germanic *haimatjaną (“to house, bring home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village”). Cognate with Old English hǣman (“to cohabit, lie with, marry”); related to Old English hām (“home, village”), Old French hantin (“a stay, a place frequented by”) from the same Germanic source.