请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 ghost
释义

Trends of
ghost

View usage for:

More idioms containing
ghost

Examples of 'ghost' in a sentence
ghost

We came here to a ghost town and have continued the fight to bring security here.The smart money must surely be on the consumer giving up the ghost in the end.They just disappear like ghosts into the hotels until it is time to go home.But industrial output has declined so much that industrial areas are ghost towns.The whole hospital feels like a ghost ship.He is bruised and subdued by the ghosts still haunting him.The fact is that most ghosted sports books miss the point of their own tale.To get to the final is enough to lay the ghost of those vanished glories.But ghosts and things that go bump in the night leave them absolutely terrified.This whole place has become like a ghost town.Now it is just an old ghost.It feels like the ghost of a seaside resort.Some villages have become ghost towns. Images of Victorian ghosts in stripy bathing costumes suddenly abound.The demons of one striker, the ghost of another and a third fretting in the shadows.These ghosts haunt our cultures, but they no longer represent who we are.It's really creepy to think my friend was just heading towards the area where the ghost was.A ghosted autobiography requires a deep bond between sportsman and journalist.I began to work on his ghosted columns too.I gave him money towards it, which he acknowledged with a nod and a ghost of a smile.So at least Tobacco Dock has the ghost of a chance for a new lease of life.You can get a ghost image of the picture on it,' he says.

Quotations

In other languages
ghost

British English: ghost /ɡəʊst/ NOUN
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
Do you believe in ghosts?
  • American English: ghost
  • Arabic: شَبَح
  • Brazilian Portuguese: fantasma
  • Chinese:
  • Croatian: duh
  • Czech: duch
  • Danish: spøgelse
  • Dutch: spook
  • European Spanish: fantasma
  • Finnish: kummitus
  • French: fantôme
  • German: Geist
  • Greek: φάντασμα
  • Italian: fantasma
  • Japanese: 幽霊
  • Korean: 유령
  • Norwegian: spøkelse
  • Polish: duch widmo
  • European Portuguese: fantasma
  • Romanian: fantomă
  • Russian: привидение
  • Latin American Spanish: fantasma
  • Swedish: spöke
  • Thai: ผี
  • Turkish: hayalet
  • Ukrainian: привид
  • Vietnamese: ma

All related terms of 'ghost'

Chinese translation of 'ghost'

ghost

(ɡəust)

n (c)

  1. (= spirit) 鬼神 (guǐshén) (种(種), zhǒng)

vt

  1. 为(為) ... 捉刀 (wèi ... zhuōdāo)
    to give up the ghost (person) 绝(絕)望 (juéwàng) (machine) 停止运(運)转(轉) (tíngzhǐ yùnzhuǎn)
    the ghost of a chance (of doing sth) 只有很少机(機)会(會)(做某事) (zhǐyǒu hěn shǎo jīhuì (zuò mǒushì))
(noun) 
Definition
the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living
The village is said to be haunted by ghosts.
Synonyms
spirit
Do you believe in the existence of evil spirits?
soul
Such memories stirred in his soul.
phantom
Many people claimed to have seen the phantom.
spectre
His spectre is said to walk the castle battlements.
spook (informal)
She woke up to see a spook hovering over her bed.
manes
apparition
She recognized one of the women as the apparition she had seen.
wraith
She believed herself to have been visited by wraiths from the afterlife.
shade (literary)
His writing benefits from the shade of Lincoln hovering over his shoulder.
revenant
phantasm
eidolon
atua (New Zealand)
kehua (New Zealand)
wairua (New Zealand)
(noun) 
Definition
a faint trace
He gave the ghost of a smile.
Synonyms
trace
Wash them in cold water to remove all traces of sand.
shadow
The faintest shadow of a frown creased that angelic face.
suggestion
that fashionably faint suggestion of a tan
hint
I glanced at her and saw no hint of irony on her face.
suspicion
large blooms of white with a suspicion of pale pink
glimmer
Our last glimmer of hope faded.
semblance

related words

related adjective spectral
related phobia phasmophobia

Quotations

Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end [Stanley Kubrick]
Even the living were only ghosts in the making [Pat Barker – The Ghost Road]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of apparition
Definition
a ghost or ghostlike figure
She recognized one of the women as the apparition she had seen.
Synonyms
ghost,
spirit,
shade (literary),
phantom,
spectre,
spook (informal),
wraith,
chimera,
revenant,
visitant,
eidolon,
atua (New Zealand),
kehua (New Zealand)
in the sense of glimmer
Definition
a faint indication
Our last glimmer of hope faded.
Synonyms
trace,
ray,
suggestion,
hint,
grain,
gleam,
flicker,
inkling
in the sense of hint
Definition
a small amount
I glanced at her and saw no hint of irony on her face.
Synonyms
trace,
touch,
suggestion,
taste,
breath,
dash,
whisper,
suspicion,
tinge,
whiff,
speck,
undertone,
soupçon

Synonyms of 'ghost'

ghost

Explore 'ghost' in the dictionary
随便看

 

英语词典包含298861条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/3/14 17:52:16