单词	spook
释义	spook1 nounspook2 verb spookspook1 /spuːk/ noun [countable] informal Word Origin WORD ORIGINspook1 Origin: 1800-1900 Dutch Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And these foreign spooks, these non-existents on the pay-rolls of any Western army, were part of that scheme. Anyone going to that kind of trouble, he said, has likely crossed the line from enthusiast to spook. As worrisome to the Agency as loose-lipped spooks were those few outsiders who dared to write about it. Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House. Hsu admits that it is somewhat ironic that technology designed to help democratise the internet is also allowing the spooks to spy. Paltry charges, it would seem, for so celebrated a spook. Thesaurus THESAURUS► ghost the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can feel or see in a place: · His ghost is believed to haunt the house. ► spirit a creature without a physical body, such as an angel or ghost: · evil spirits· the spirit world ► apparition an image of a dead person that someone sees suddenly for a short time: · He claimed to have seen an apparition in the church. ► poltergeist a ghost that people cannot see, which throws things or moves things around: · The house was haunted by a poltergeist that makes things move around all by themselves, sometimes quite big things like beds or wardrobes. ► spook informal a ghost: · I’m not scared of spooks. ► phantom literary a frightening and unclear image of a dead person: · They had seen phantoms gliding on the surface of the water. ► spectre British English, specter American English literary a ghost, especially a frightening one: · She had looked like a spectre.· The following night, the spectre appeared again. 1a ghost2especially American English a spy spook1 nounspook2 verb spookspook2 verb [transitive] informal Verb Table VERB TABLE spook Simple Form Present I, you, we, they spook he, she, it spooks Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they spooked Present perfect I, you, we, they have spooked he, she, it has spooked Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had spooked Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will spook Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have spooked Continuous Form Present I am spooking he, she, it is spooking you, we, they are spooking Past I, he, she, it was spooking you, we, they were spooking Present perfect I, you, we, they have been spooking he, she, it has been spooking Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been spooking Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be spooking Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been spooking Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Something must have spooked the horses. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Brown has taken great care not to spook the City. If the cap had been spooked by our presence could the same be true of the cats? If the stock market spooks you, park your money in two-year Treasury notes. Maybe she came in at bath time because being alone in her empty wing spooked her. Something spooked him, deep inside, somewhere inaccessible. The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries. They are spooking away at the window and Charlie and Emma take some direct action and soak them in water. to frighten someone:  I’m not easily spooked.
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