| 单词 | spectre at the feast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspectre at the feast (also banquet) spectre 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.Chiefly with allusion to the appearance of Banquo's ghost in the banquet scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth iii. iv.Cf. ghost at the feast, a skeleton at the feast. ΚΠ 1831 Lady's Bk. Nov. 288/2 They deem me one With whom life's love hath ceased; They slip their visors, and I see The spectre at the feast. 1900 H. Macpherson Herbert Spencer vi. 95 Enthusiastic hopes..were entertained of the human race from the Age of Reason... Like the spectre at the banquet, Malthus appeared with his gloomy prophecies of the future. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Weekend section) 4 My daughter is to marry next month, and her previously absent father has decided to attend the wedding... He will truly be the spectre at the feast. < as lemmas |
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