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

• The specter of unemployment hunted the country.
  失业的幽灵在这个国家作祟。
• High valuations and intensified competition raise the specter of lower returns for value investors generally.
  高估值和强竞争增强一般价值投资者对低回报的恐惧。
• 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。
• The specter of overpopulation casts its pall over the access of new life anyway;
  人口过度膨胀的恐慌给新生命的诞生蒙上了阴影。
• He'll also be trailing the specter of rising protectionism in america.
  他也是美国的贸易保护主义幽灵。
• I had the terrible prospect of poverty and starving which lay on me as a frightful specter.
  我眼中还是看到一个穷困饥饿的可怕前途，像个可怕的魔鬼似的站在我的面前。
• He was the most successful rebel slave; his specter would stalk the white South for a century.
  他是最成功的反叛奴隶；他将秸秆白幽灵南一世纪。
• The specter of the murdered man haunted the house.
  被谋杀男人的幽魂出没于这间房子的周遭。
• Raise the specter of unemployment; he conjured wild birds in the air; stir a disturbance.
  唤起失业的幽灵；唤起我的灵感；唤起骚动。
• The specter haunted Martin.
  这种害怕的思想萦绕在马丁心头。