specter
英 ['spektə(r)]
美 ['spektər]
n. 同“spectre”
COCA.28314
英英释义
noun
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- he looked like he had seen a ghost
- it aroused specters from his past
- a ghostly appearing figure
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - The specter of international terrorism is looming again.
国际恐怖主义的幽灵又阴森地逼近了。 - By ensuring a debt limit increase of at least$ 2.1 trillion, this deal removes the specter of default, providing important certainty to our economy at a fragile moment.
通过确保至少2.1万亿美元的债务上限提高，这项协议将消除违约的恐惧，在一个脆弱的时刻为我们的经济提供了重要的确定性。 - The news of more cuts has raised the specter of redundancies once again.
关于进一步裁减的消息让人们担心会再次裁员。