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 Al-Aqsa Brigade threatened revenge, raising the specter of an escalation of violence.
  阿克萨烈士旅威胁要进行报复，增加了暴力升级的可能。
• Gene-based anthropology also struggles with the specter of racism.
  以基因为基础的人类学，仍旧在与种族主义的幽灵进行斗争。
• It seemed to Golda that her country had escaped the specter of military defeat.
  在果尔达看来，她的国家好容易摆脱了军事失败的幽灵。
• We also face the specter of nonlinear tipping points that may cause much more severe changes.
  我们还面临另一个幽灵，那就是非线性的气候引爆点，这会带来许多严重得多的变化。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A supernatural being; a ghost or specter.
  下凡的神仙超自然力的灵魂；
• 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。
• 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。