| 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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