名 spirit，apparition，used to form a term of abuse for ignoble character，ghost；形 evasive，stealthy，terrible，bad ；

[例句] 让这事见鬼去吧，我可要走了。 To hell with this, I'm getting out of here.

[例句] 他们设法神不知鬼不觉地离开了海岸。 They managed to get away from the coast undetected.

devil，demon，monster，demono-，Belial；

[例句] 你是个耍阴谋诡计的小魔鬼，对不对？ You're a scheming little devil, aren't you?

[例句] 地狱里折磨罪人的魔鬼 demons torturing the sinners in Hell

piddle，daddle，screw around，fool around；

[例句] 他经常与几个臭名昭著的毒贩鬼混。 He regularly consorted with known drug-dealers.

[例句] 我愿他不再在城里鬼混,追逐妙龄少女. I wish he would stop chasing around the town after young women.

miser，niggard，pinchfist，skinflint，cheapskate ；

[例句] 真是一群吝啬鬼。 What a bunch of Scrooges.

[例句] 别指望那个吝啬鬼会请你吃饭. Don't expect that niggard to invite you to dinner.

ghost，apparition，spirit，spectre，soul；

[例句] 他宣称自己完全不相信鬼魂现象。 He declared his total disbelief in psychic phenomena.

[例句] 那不是鬼魂，是实实在在的人。 It wasn't a ghost; it was a real person.

wine bibber，tippler，drunkard，sot，alcoholic；

[例句] 我原以为他是个酒鬼。 I thought he was a bit of a boozer.

[例句] 他并非货真价实的酒鬼。 He's not a real alcoholic.

ghosts and monsters，monsters of all kinds，forces of evil，evil spirits，apparition ；

[例句] 这个森林黑暗寂静，经常有幽灵和看不见的鬼怪出没。 The forest was dark and silent, haunted by shadows and unseen presences.

[例句] 她觉得这座房子里有可怕的鬼怪，开始变得神经紧张。 She started to be affected by the ghostly presence she could feel in the house.

fantastic，preposterous，go to hell，（诅咒用语） Damn the ghost! Damn it!，absurd ；

[例句] 让这事见鬼去吧，我可要走了。 To hell with this, I'm getting out of here.

[例句] 你和你该死的百分比都见鬼去吧！ A plague on you and your damned percentages!

funny face，wry face，grimace，mask used as a toy，mop ；

[例句] 看着护士长离去的身影，这个年轻的护士做了个鬼脸。 The young nurse pulled a face at the Matron's retreating figure.

[例句] 她做了个鬼脸，向他吐了吐舌头。 She made a face and stuck out her tongue at him.

coward，craven，poltroon，scaramouch，caitiff；

[例句] 我怕黑，是个十足的胆小鬼。 I'm scared of the dark. I'm a big chicken.

[例句] 你这胆小鬼！你怕什么呢？ You coward! What are you afraid of?

cool hand，cool character，harumscarum，sad sack，saucebox ；

[例句] 尽管如此，这将会让他不再像个冒失鬼一样到处横冲直撞了。 Still, it'll stop him rampaging all over the place like a bull in a china shop.

[例句] (你喜欢《美人与冒失鬼》 吗 ?) D: Do you like The Beauty and the Bold?

evil spirit，demon，devil，cacodaemon ；

[例句] 幽灵和恶鬼都是超自然的. Ghosts and evil spirits are supernatural.

[例句] 这使我想起了掘墓的恶鬼,白痴和狂人的嚎叫. It reminded me of and idiots and insane howlings.

lie，deceptive remark，nonsense，outright lies ；

[例句] 全都是些部长们常说的骗人鬼话和少不了的奉承恭维。 There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.

[例句] 别对我讲那些鬼话！ Don't give me that baloney!

penny pincher，scraper，niggard，miser，flayflint ；

[例句] 象他这样的小气鬼我们何时见过? Never have we seen such a niggard like him!

[例句] 那个小气鬼居然把女友带到自助餐馆约会. That cheapskate took his date to a cafeteria.

（比喻凶险的地方） the gate of hell，danger spot，a trying moment，the jaws of death，[电影]The Portal；

[例句] 嘿, 不瞒您说,他五年前就进了鬼门关了. ” Why, bless you he's in Sheol these five years! "

[例句] 这起事故的受害者是被人从鬼门关里抢救出来. The firemen rescued the little girl form the jaws of death.

vampire，bloodsucker，[电影]Le vampire；

[例句] 惠特比镇因为布拉姆·斯托克著名的吸血鬼故事而名传后世。 The town of whitby was immortalised in Bram Stoker's famous Dracula story.

[例句] 吸血鬼当场立即被农民杀掉了. The bloodsucker was put to death by the peasants there and then.

imp，goblin，（对小孩的亲昵称呼） little devil，devilkin，gremlin；

[例句] 你这小鬼! You young devil's spawn!

[例句] 我不能让他在别的小鬼面前觉得不光彩. I can't let him be ashamed before the other little brutes.

dishonourable，tricky，intriguing，stealth ；

[例句] 米丽亚姆变得抑郁不乐,行动鬼祟. Miriam becomes melancholy and secretive.

[例句] 大概在3年前, 我帮他们抓了一些鬼祟的贼. About 3 years ago, l caught a few sneaky thieves for them.

goat，lovelace ；

[例句] 他以前总想乱来。但现在他已71岁，有些力不从心了。不过是个老色鬼罢了。 He was always trying it on. But now he's 71, it's causing problems. He's just a dirty old man.

[例句] 那个老色鬼自以为是罗密欧. That old goat thinks he is a real Romeo.

elf，elfin，rascal，urchin，varmint ；

[例句] 我想开玩笑是他的主意，真是个淘气鬼。 It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag.

[例句] 那个小淘气鬼不停地捉弄他的父母. The little horror never stops playing tricks on his parents.