ghost
n. 鬼,幽灵; (尤指可怕事物的)记忆; 隐约的一点点; (电视屏幕上的)重影
vt. 悄悄地行进
vi. 替人代笔
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...
玛丽·安托瓦妮特的幽灵
The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
死去的孩子们的幽灵常在该村出没。
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement.
总统正借这两次访问来消除《慕尼黑协定》的阴影。
...the ghost of economic mismanagement.
经济管理不善的梦魇
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
He gave the ghost of a smile...
他露出一丝微笑。
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
阳光和煦,仅有一丝西北风轻轻吹拂。
If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail...
我出版了《每日邮报》的女记者为他代笔的自传,写得颇具文采。
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
我为他代写《电讯报》每周的橄榄球专栏。
If someone does not stand or does not have a ghost of a chance of doing something, they have very little chance of succeeding in it.
He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.
那房子他根本不可能卖得出去。
If someone gives up the ghost, they stop trying to do something because they no longer believe they can do it successfully. If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working.
Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for...
一些公司没等找到目标便已放弃。
The battery in my car gave up the ghost.
我的汽车电池报废了。
1. a mental representation of some haunting experience;
2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
4. a suggestion of some quality;
1. move like a ghost;
2. haunt like a ghost; pursue;
3. write for someone else;
soul, ghost, spirit
这些名词均含"灵魂,心灵"之意。
the ghost in the machine
(哲)机器里出鬼(喻指身心有别或身心独立论,通常系二元论的批评者用来指身心有别论的贬抑用语)
give up the ghost
死亡
look as if you have seen a ghost
看上去面无人色,惶恐不已
not stand the ghost of a chance
根本没有机会
He looked as if he had seen a ghost.
他好象见了鬼似的(很惊慌的样子).
How Dr. Sun's ghost would rebuke these unworthy followers of his!
孙先生在天之灵,真不知怎样责备这些不肖子孙呢!
He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.
他告诉我说他父亲的阴魂出现在他的床边.
The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
她嘴角露出一丝微笑.
It is a superstitious idea that the ghost can cast a living man under a spell.
鬼魂能迷住人是一种迷信的观念.