英语词汇“ghost at the feast”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. ghost at the feast (also banquet): a person or thing whose presence spoils an otherwise pleasant event, occasion, or situation, esp. by forcing others to acknowledge a distressing, uncomfortable, or shameful fact or memory.Originally and frequently with allusion to the appearance of Banquo's ghost in the banquet scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth iii. iv.; cf. quot. 1830.Cf. spectre at the feast, a skeleton at the feast.

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1830 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 2 Aug. How the spectre of the Hartford Convention troubles this poor man, and always rises, like Banquo's Ghost at the banquet, before him.]

1862 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 11 Aug. Turning to another column of the same paper we find charges of treason against numerous unknown citizens, acting the part of ghost at this feast, and marring its otherwise glorious features.

1903 Indian Rev. Dec. 773/2 Surely, Tolstoism is the ghost at the banquet, unnerving Europe when it is complementing itself on its civilization.

2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 Mar. 31 My friends were busy with their families and, as a childless widow, I felt like a ghost at the feast.

单词	ghost at the feast
释义	> as lemmas ghost at the feast (also banquet) d. ghost at the feast (also banquet): a person or thing whose presence spoils an otherwise pleasant event, occasion, or situation, esp. by forcing others to acknowledge a distressing, uncomfortable, or shameful fact or memory.Originally and frequently with allusion to the appearance of Banquo's ghost in the banquet scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth iii. iv.; cf. quot. 1830.Cf. spectre at the feast, a skeleton at the feast. ΚΠ 1830 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 2 Aug. How the spectre of the Hartford Convention troubles this poor man, and always rises, like Banquo's Ghost at the banquet, before him.] 1862 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 11 Aug. Turning to another column of the same paper we find charges of treason against numerous unknown citizens, acting the part of ghost at this feast, and marring its otherwise glorious features. 1903 Indian Rev. Dec. 773/2 Surely, Tolstoism is the ghost at the banquet, unnerving Europe when it is complementing itself on its civilization. 2017 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 4 Mar. 31 My friends were busy with their families and, as a childless widow, I felt like a ghost at the feast. extracted from ghostn.adj. < as lemmas
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