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单词 ghost
音标
英[gəʊst] 美[goʊst]
解释
n.鬼,幽灵;(尤指可怕事物的)记忆;隐约的一点点;(电视屏幕上的)重影;vt.悄悄地行进;vi.替人代笔;
例句

N-COUNT
鬼;幽灵
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
例:...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...玛丽·安托瓦妮特的幽灵
例:The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.死去的孩子们的幽灵常在该村出没。

N-COUNT
(尤指对可怕事物的)记忆,回忆
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
例:The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement.总统正借这两次访问来消除《慕尼黑协定》的阴影。
例:...the ghost of economic mismanagement.经济管理不善的梦魇

N-SING
一丝;一点
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
例:He gave the ghost of a smile...他露出一丝微笑。
例:The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.阳光和煦,仅有一丝西北风轻轻吹拂。

VERB
代人写作;为人代笔
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.
例:I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail...我出版了《每日邮报》的女记者为他代笔的自传,写得颇具文采。
例:I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.我为他代写《电讯报》每周的橄榄球专栏。

PHRASE
没有一点(成功的)可能;机会渺茫
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.
例:He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.那房子他根本不可能卖得出去。

PHRASE
(人)放弃,撂挑子;(机器)报废,不再运转
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.
例:Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for...一些公司没等找到目标便已放弃。
例:The battery in my car gave up the ghost.我的汽车电池报废了。
变形
third:ghosts~pl:ghosts~ing:ghosting~past:ghosted~

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