| 释义 |
specterspec‧ter /ˈspektə $ -ər/ noun [countable]   specterOrigin: 1600-1700 French spectre, from Latin spectrum; ➔ SPECTRUM - Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again.
- How does a specter go about making his confession?
- I wish you could have seen the faces of the jury as the awful specter of the future unfolded before them.
- Opponents painted a more apocalyptic picture, warning of foreign landowners and even invoking the specter of civil war.
- Potentially problematic was the specter of defense witnesses placing John Doe No. 2 in the conspiracy and confusing jurors.
- The specter, north and south, of the black face, real and corporeal, owing nothing to burnt cork.
- The buildings were only specters glimpsed through the thick white veils the air had become.
- They figure this was a puritanical overreaction to a handful of innocent pictures and claim it raises the chilling specter of censorship.
VERB► raise· They figure this was a puritanical overreaction to a handful of innocent pictures and claim it raises the chilling specter of censorship.· Failure in Chechnya raises the specter that other independent-minded regions could become problems once again. the American spelling of spectre |