I looked it up. It's called a poltergeist.

我查过辞典了 那叫做恶作剧。

I looked it up. It's called a poltergeist.

我查过了，这叫捣蛋。poltergeist /'poltɚgaɪst/ n。 捣蛋。

Could be a poltergeist. - No, no, no. The movie Poltergeist.

可能是促狭 不 不 不 是电影。

" Poltergeist! " they cried, and fled to sleep in the living-room.

“恶作剧！”他们哭了，跑到客厅去睡觉。

Yeah, he told me. It was a poltergeist?

是的 他告诉过我 是个恶作剧？

Yeah, up in Kittanning, Pensylvania. The poltergeist thing.

宾夕法尼亚的科特宁镇 那个恶作剧。

If there was a demon or poltergeist...

那有恶。

Your mom's spirit and the poltergeist's energy...

你妈妈的灵魂和那个灵魂。

I was only wondering whether you considered them oddities in the sense that stigmata and poltergeists are'.

我只是想知道你是否认他们是 stigmata 和 poltergeists 那样的怪人。

There are people who believe that poltergeists are not actual ghosts and were never human in the first place.

有些人认恶作剧者不是真正的魂，本就不是人类。

Or you know how a poltergeist can haunt a person instead of a place?

你清楚一个魂怎么附着在 人身上不是某个地点吗？

All right, fine, fine, but if you're my next victim, don't come back as a poltergeist and like suck me into the TV set.

好，但你是下一名受害者 别化身成厉跑回来 把我吸进电视里。

I'd read an article in Life magazine some years before, suggesting that at least some reported poltergeist activity might actually be telekinetic phenomena—telekinesis being the ability to move objects just by thinking about them.

几年前我在《生活》杂志上读过一篇文章，说有几起闹事件很可能其实是心灵致动现象——心灵致动指的是单凭意念就可以使物体移位的能力。

" Peeves, " Percy whispered to the first years. " A poltergeist." He raised his voice, " Peeves -- show yourself." A loud, rude sound, like the air being let out of a balloon, answered.

“是皮皮，”珀西小声对一年级新生说，“一个专门喜欢恶作剧的幽灵。”他又抬高嗓门说：“皮皮——显形吧。” 　回答他的是响亮、刺耳、像气球泄气似的噗噗的响声。

He walked very fast along the corridor, the note to McGonagall clutched tight in his hand, and turning a corner walked slap into Peeves the poltergeist, a wide-mouthed little man floating on his back in midair, juggling several inkwells.

他顺着走廊飞快地往前走，手里紧紧攥着给麦格教授的便条，转过一个拐角，猛地撞上了皮皮——专门喜欢搞恶作剧的魂。他是一个长着一张阔嘴巴的小个子男人，正平躺着悬在空中，像玩杂技一样抛接着几个墨水池。