specter
英 ['spektə(r)]
美 ['spektər]
n. 同“spectre”
COCA.28314
英英释义
noun
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- he looked like he had seen a ghost
- it aroused specters from his past
- a ghostly appearing figure
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
双语例句
- Raise the specter of unemployment; he conjured wild birds in the air; stir a disturbance.
唤起失业的幽灵；唤起我的灵感；唤起骚动。 - The specter of overpopulation casts its pall over the access of new life anyway;
人口过度膨胀的恐慌给新生命的诞生蒙上了阴影。 - The terrible specter of civil war hung over the country once again.
内战的可怕阴影再一次笼罩这个国家。 - By ensuring a debt limit increase of at least$ 2.1 trillion, this deal removes the specter of default, providing important certainty to our economy at a fragile moment.
通过确保至少2.1万亿美元的债务上限提高，这项协议将消除违约的恐惧，在一个脆弱的时刻为我们的经济提供了重要的确定性。 - We also face the specter of nonlinear tipping points that may cause much more severe changes.
我们还面临另一个幽灵，那就是非线性的气候引爆点，这会带来许多严重得多的变化。 - Clinton said the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran has created what amounts to an "alliance" among Israel and many Arab States, and she is hoping the shared interests will give impetus not only to diplomacy with Iran but also a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
克林顿说，一个拥有核武器的伊朗所形成的阴影使以色列和许多阿拉伯国家建立了一种“同盟”，她希望这种共同利益不仅能推动与伊朗的外交，而且还能解决以色列和巴勒斯坦的冲突。 - It seemed to Golda that her country had escaped the specter of military defeat.
在果尔达看来，她的国家好容易摆脱了军事失败的幽灵。 - The specter haunted Martin.
这种害怕的思想萦绕在马丁心头。 - In this last example you can see that this specter is trying to target a group of infantry.
在最后的例子中，你可以看到，幽魂炮正在瞄准一队步兵。 - I see that behind the nobility of his gestures there lurks the specter of the ridiculousness of it all – that he is not only sublime, but absurd.
我从他的高雅手势后看到一个荒谬的幽灵在徘徊&他不仅崇高，而且还荒谬。