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 spectre ['spektә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 幽灵, 妖怪, 凶兆



    spectre
    [ noun ]
    1. a ghostly appearing figure

    2. <noun.person>
      we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
    3. a mental representation of some haunting experience

    4. <noun.cognition>
      he looked like he had seen a ghost
      it aroused specters from his past


    Spectre \Spec"tre\, n.
    See {Specter}.


    Specter \Spec"ter\, Spectre \Spec"tre\, n. [F. spectre, fr. L.
    spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look.
    See {Spy}, and cf. {Spectrum}.]
    1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost;
    a phantom.

    The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend,
    With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. --Dryden.

    2. (Zo["o]l.)
    (a) The tarsius.
    (b) A stick insect.

    {Specter bat} (Zo["o]l.), any phyllostome bat.

    {Specter candle} (Zo["o]l.), a belemnite.

    {Specter shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), a skeleton shrimp. See under
    {Skeleton}.

    1. Firms are already labouring under real interest rates of around 4 5 per cent, even though nominal rates are at an all-time low. Worst of all is the spectre of real debt inflation - the real value of companies and individuals' debt is rising.
    2. Is it the spectre of resurgent inflation?
    3. Second, the spectre of politicians expressing futile alarm at extremists' misdeeds will damage the stock of the country's leadership, at a time when Germany needs effective government.
    4. The other effect may be to make the unions more independent of a state on which they have traditionally depended, and create a far more combative relationship. The spectre of unemployment concerns more than a few Russian officials.
    5. Despite hopes that a new chairman and director general might strike up a better working relationship, it has raised the spectre that tensions between the two sides may remain.
    6. For the referendum campaign focused largely on other issues: the threat that CP policies would provoke international sanctions, and keep South Africans out of world sporting events; the spectre of socialism from the ANC.
    7. Half the bureaucrats in the government and Communist Party are slated to lose their positions, which raises the spectre of unemployment, despite Gorbachev's insistence no one will be left jobless.
    8. But a different economic spectre is haunting the west.
    9. The spectre of a summer White House summit was raised on the Senate floor Tuesday as the two parties settled a dispute that was holding up action on the child care and Central American aid bills.
    10. "The United Nations has yet to leave behind the spectre of the financial crisis.
    11. This is much the lowest rate in the region and has helped raise the spectre of a new economic trough characterised by low growth and high interest rates.
    12. Yet the spectre of 'blocism' continues to haunt us.
    13. Anyone who regrets the modern cleaning of the 'Transfiguration' can compare it with the sombre hues faithfully rendered in the 1820s by one Grigor Urquhart of Inverness. Inevitably, the exhibition conjures up the spectre of absence.
    14. The spectre of Philly-phobia is haunting Democratic legislative candidates as Republicans scare taxpayers by telling them a vote against the GOP is a vote for a bailout of the state's largest city.
    15. The arrival of European discounters like Netto and Aldi raises the spectre of sustained competition on price from companies that are not likely to be intimidated by suppliers' pressure.
    16. Ken Clarke squelched hopes of an early interest rate cut by invoking the spectre of inflationary Chancellors-past.
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