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 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。
• Clinton said the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran has created what amounts to an "alliance" among Israel and many Arab States, and she is hoping the shared interests will give impetus not only to diplomacy with Iran but also a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  克林顿说，一个拥有核武器的伊朗所形成的阴影使以色列和许多阿拉伯国家建立了一种“同盟”，她希望这种共同利益不仅能推动与伊朗的外交，而且还能解决以色列和巴勒斯坦的冲突。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Japanese primarily connect lotus flower and death as well as the specter world together.
  日本人主要把莲与死亡以及幽灵世界连在一起。
• 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。