ghost
n. 鬼,幽靈; (尤指可怕事物的)記憶; 隱約的一點點; (電視螢幕上的)重影
vt. 悄悄地行進
vi. 替人代筆
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...
瑪麗·安託瓦妮特的幽靈
The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
死去的孩子們的幽靈常在該村出沒。
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.
總統正借這兩次訪問來消除《慕尼黑協定》的陰影。
...the ghost of economic mismanagement.
經濟管理不善的夢魘
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...
他露出一絲微笑。
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
陽光和煦,僅有一絲西北風輕輕吹拂。
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《每日郵報》的女記者為他代筆的自傳,寫得頗具文采。
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
我為他代寫《電訊報》每週的橄欖球專欄。
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賣得出去。
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...
一些公司沒等找到目標便已放棄。
The battery in my car gave up the ghost.
我的汽車電池報廢了。
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
這些名詞均含"靈魂,心靈"之意。
the ghost in the machine
(哲)機器裡出鬼(喻指身心有別或身心獨立論,通常系二元論的批評者用來指身心有別論的貶抑用語)
give up the ghost
死亡
look as if you have seen a ghost
看上去面無人色,惶恐不已
not stand the ghost of a chance
根本沒有機會
He looked as if he had seen a ghost.
他好象見了鬼似的(很驚慌的樣子).
How Dr. Sun's ghost would rebuke these unworthy followers of his!
孫先生在天之靈,真不知怎樣責備這些不肖子孫呢!
He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.
他告訴我說他父親的陰魂出現在他的床邊.
The ghost of a smile played round her lips.
她嘴角露出一絲微笑.
It is a superstitious idea that the ghost can cast a living man under a spell.
鬼魂能迷住人是一種迷信的觀念.