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spectre

noun
/ˈspektə(r)/
/ˈspektər/
(US English specter)
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  1. spectre (of something) something unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future恐惧;恐慌;忧虑
    • The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.内战仿佛一触即发,举国上下一片恐慌。
    • These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.几星期来的干旱再次引起了群众对大饥荒的恐慌。
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    • The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.内战可怕的阴云再一次笼罩这个国家。
    • Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.华尔街股市暴跌引发了 1987 年股市崩盘时的那种恐慌。
    • an attempt to exorcize the spectre of poverty驱逐贫困这个幽灵的努力
    • the looming spectre of a financial crisis金融危机步步逼近的恐慌
    • the twin spectres of addiction and violence成瘾和暴力这一对孪生魔鬼
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • grim
    • ominous
    • old
    verb + spectre/​specter
    • evoke
    • invoke
    • raise
    spectre/​specter + verb
    • hang over somebody/​something
    • haunt somebody/​something
    • hover over somebody/​something
    preposition
    • spectre of
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  2. (literary) a ghost鬼;幽灵
    • Was he a spectre returning to haunt her?是不是他的幽灵回来找她了?
  3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French spectre or Latin spectrum ‘image, apparition’, from specere ‘to look’.

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