spectre是什么意思？

spectre

英['spektə(r)] 美[ˈspɛktɚ]

• n. 鬼怪，幽灵，缠绕心头的恐惧，凶兆；

复数：spectres;

例句

• The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。
• The terrible spectre 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。
• The news of more cuts has raised the spectre of redundancies once again. 关于进一步裁减的消息让人们担心会再次裁员。
• Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action. 无法就此事达成共识引起了人们对可能会诉诸法律手段的担忧。
• 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。
• And it has raised the spectre of unrest across the whole of the North Caucasus. 而且,它增加了北高加索地区的动荡程度.
• Like many others, Handford was relieved to see the spectre of 15% interest rates evaporate by the end of the day. 和其他很多人一样，当看到15%的利率的阴霾随着那天的结束而散尽时，汉德福感到一阵欣慰。
• Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action... 无法就此事达成共识引起了人们对可能会诉诸法律手段的担忧。
• The spectre of neo-fascism, as he put it, was stalking the streets of Sofia and other big cities. 用他的话来说，新法西斯主义的幽灵正在索非亚和其他大城市中游荡。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  萦绕心头的恐惧
  If you refer to the spectre of something unpleasant, you are referring to something that you are frightened might occur.
  例句
  Failure to arrive at a consensus over the issue raised the spectre of legal action... 无法就此事达成共识引起了人们对可能会诉诸法律手段的担忧。 Like many others, Handford was relieved to see the spectre of 15% interest rates evaporate by the end of the day. 和其他很多人一样，当看到15%的利率的阴霾随着那天的结束而散尽时，汉德福感到一阵欣慰。
• N-COUNT
  鬼魂;幽灵;亡灵
  A spectre is a ghost .

英汉词典释义

• n.
  缠绕心头的恐惧,凶兆
  The news of more cuts has raised the spectre of redundancies once again. 关于进一步裁减的消息让人们担心会再次裁员。 The terrible spectre 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。 Wall Street’s collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash. 华尔街股市暴跌引发了1987 年股市崩溃时的那种恐慌。 The arrival of warm weather raises the spectre of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a ghostly appearing figure;
  "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
  2. a mental representation of some haunting experience;
  "he looked like he had seen a ghost""it aroused specters from his past"