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单词 ghost story
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Definition of ghost story in English:

ghost story

noun
  • A story about ghosts, intended to be frightening.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What starts out a psychological thriller turns into little more than a ghost story, and the potential of the initial story is abandoned.
    • In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares.
    • It starts off as a ghost story, moves into a political thriller and finishes as an epic, spiritual battle between good and evil.
    • It's a kind of ghost story, really, a ghost story that ends on a quavering note of love, reunion, and redemption.
    • If you had read the title of this story, you would think that this story will be a scary ghost story or a story about a murderer with an axe but I am afraid it is not.
    • In this case a modern Tokyo apartment building becomes the setting for a ghost story told in the time-honoured Japanese confessional style.
    • It is a ghost story, a tragedy, a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story performed with childlike unselfconsciousness.
    • As the distant thunder rumbled and came closer, I thought of the next dime novel I had been planning to read, a ghost story.
    • I enjoyed writing the ghost story and the competition gave me a real taste of what it would be like to be an author.
    • It is the ghost story supreme - a ghost story with a vengeance.
    • It's a haunting tale, like a ghost story whose narrator is speaking from beyond the grave, a victim of the same fate.
    • The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
    • There are elements of a ghost story, and there is a growing, yet understated tension, with subtle layers of meaning.
    • I think one episode involved a ghost story in a park.
    • He is the father of much genre writing - the detective story, the ghost story, science fiction, the psychological thriller.
    • After dark, pass around a flashlight and let everyone tell a favorite ghost story.
    • She tells him that he acts like he is frightened by a superstitious ghost story.
    • It's a ghost story, about the almost-killed being viewed as if they were.
    • There's nothing like a good ghost story to spice up the history of a house.
    • As the name would suggest, it is a ghost story and there is nothing wrong with that.
 
 

Definition of ghost story in US English:

ghost story

nounˈɡoʊs(t) ˌstɔriˈɡōs(t) ˌstôrē
  • A story involving ghosts or ghostly circumstances, intended to be suspenseful and scary.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is the father of much genre writing - the detective story, the ghost story, science fiction, the psychological thriller.
    • It's a ghost story, about the almost-killed being viewed as if they were.
    • In this case a modern Tokyo apartment building becomes the setting for a ghost story told in the time-honoured Japanese confessional style.
    • She tells him that he acts like he is frightened by a superstitious ghost story.
    • It starts off as a ghost story, moves into a political thriller and finishes as an epic, spiritual battle between good and evil.
    • As the name would suggest, it is a ghost story and there is nothing wrong with that.
    • I enjoyed writing the ghost story and the competition gave me a real taste of what it would be like to be an author.
    • In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares.
    • The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
    • It's a haunting tale, like a ghost story whose narrator is speaking from beyond the grave, a victim of the same fate.
    • What starts out a psychological thriller turns into little more than a ghost story, and the potential of the initial story is abandoned.
    • There are elements of a ghost story, and there is a growing, yet understated tension, with subtle layers of meaning.
    • I think one episode involved a ghost story in a park.
    • After dark, pass around a flashlight and let everyone tell a favorite ghost story.
    • If you had read the title of this story, you would think that this story will be a scary ghost story or a story about a murderer with an axe but I am afraid it is not.
    • It is a ghost story, a tragedy, a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story performed with childlike unselfconsciousness.
    • It is the ghost story supreme - a ghost story with a vengeance.
    • There's nothing like a good ghost story to spice up the history of a house.
    • It's a kind of ghost story, really, a ghost story that ends on a quavering note of love, reunion, and redemption.
    • As the distant thunder rumbled and came closer, I thought of the next dime novel I had been planning to read, a ghost story.
 
 
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