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
- 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 of international terrorism is looming again.
国际恐怖主义的幽灵又阴森地逼近了。 - 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 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。