英语词汇“spectre”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

spectre

/ˈspɛktə

(US specter)

noun

1A ghost: a dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life...

Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts.
He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment.
In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.

Synonyms

ghost, phantom, apparition, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence, illusion;

Scottish & Irish bodach;

German doppelgänger;

West Indian duppy

informal spook

literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight

rare eidolon, manes

1.1Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence: the spectre of nuclear holocaust...

Lately she's been thinking a lot about selling her home to break free from debt, because she fears the specter of foreclosure every day.
Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings.
It also raises the specter of a dangerous shift toward protectionism.

Synonyms

threat, menace, shadow, cloud, vision;

prospect;

danger, peril, fear, dread

Origin

Early 17th century: from French spectre or Latin spectrum (see spectrum).

单词	spectre
释义	spectre /ˈspɛktə / (US specter) noun 1A ghost: a dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life... Only when memory is, like the narrator's in Kesey's novel, sufficiently dim, do the dead appear as specters and ghosts. He believes the spectre is the ghost of Pte Crowley, of the 11th North Devonshire Regiment. In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism. Synonyms ghost, phantom, apparition, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence, illusion; Scottish & Irish bodach; German doppelgänger; West Indian duppy informal spook literary phantasm, shade, revenant, wight rare eidolon, manes 1.1Something widely feared as a possible unpleasant or dangerous occurrence: the spectre of nuclear holocaust... Lately she's been thinking a lot about selling her home to break free from debt, because she fears the specter of foreclosure every day. Our world has changed; we must adjust our living habits as necessary to address the increased danger that the specter of terrorism brings. It also raises the specter of a dangerous shift toward protectionism. Synonyms threat, menace, shadow, cloud, vision; prospect; danger, peril, fear, dread Origin Early 17th century: from French spectre or Latin spectrum (see spectrum).
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