specter

英 ['spektə(r)]

美 ['spektər]

n.  同“spectre”

GRE

COCA.28314

英英释义

noun

• a mental representation of some haunting experience
  1. he looked like he had seen a ghost
  2. it aroused specters from his past
  Synonym:ghostshadespookwraithspectre
• a ghostly appearing figure
  1. we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
  Synonym:apparitionphantomphantasmphantasmafantasmspectre

双语例句

• Spirit, I fear you more than any specter I have yet met.
  幽灵，比起我见过的那些可怕的幽灵来我更害怕你。
• The specter of international terrorism is looming again.
  国际恐怖主义的幽灵又阴森地逼近了。
• The specter of loneliness and its share of frustrations are so many arrows that mystifies love in imprisoning life.
  幽灵的孤独和沮丧，有这么多的箭头迷惑的爱终身监禁。
• A supernatural being; a ghost or specter.
  下凡的神仙超自然力的灵魂；
• The terrible specter of civil war hung over the country once again.
  内战的可怕阴影再一次笼罩这个国家。
• I see that behind the nobility of his gestures there lurks the specter of the ridiculousness of it all – that he is not only sublime, but absurd.
  我从他的高雅手势后看到一个荒谬的幽灵在徘徊&他不仅崇高，而且还荒谬。
• Pretty soon the specter of another economic downturn was causing turbulence.
  很快，经济可能再度下滑的担忧引发了市场动荡。
• The specter haunted Martin.
  这种害怕的思想萦绕在马丁心头。
• There is no denying that the specter of unemployment and want is constantly haunting them.
  失业和贫乏的幽灵一直在对他们作祟是不能否认的。
• We watched the stalking tiger approach his prey; a stalking specter on the castle walls at midnight.
  我们看着那只悄悄跟踪的老虎接近了它的猎物；一个半夜潜行在城堡的城墙上的幽灵。