ghost
四级,考研,1
英[gəʊst]|美[ɡost]
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
日语:おばけ
法语:fantôme
德语:Geist
韩语:귀신
俄语:fantasma
牛津词典
noun
- 鬼;鬼魂;幽灵
the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear
- Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist) ?
你相信有鬼吗? - the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her
萦绕在她脑际的父亲的幽灵 - He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened) .
他那副样子就像是见到鬼一样。
- (尤指可怕事物的)记忆,回忆
the memory of sth, especially sth bad
- The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.
反犹主义在欧洲阴魂不散。
- 隐约的一点点;(某物残留的)一丝,一点
a very slight amount of sth that is left behind or that you are not sure really exists
- There was a ghost of a smile on his face.
他脸上露出隐隐的一丝微笑。 - You don't have a ghost of a chance (= you have no chance) .
你一点儿机会都没有。
- (电视屏幕上的)重影
a second image on a television screen that is not as clear as the first, caused by a fault
verb
verb
- 无声地行进
to move without making a sound
- They ghosted up the smooth waters of the river.
他们无声地航行在平静的河水上。
词形变化
名词复数形式:ghosts 过去式:ghosted 现在分词:ghosting 第三人称单数:ghosts 过去分词:ghosted
中文词源
ghost 鬼魂
来自PIE*gheis, 兴奋,恐惧,臆想,词源同ghastly, zeitgeist.
双语例句
- In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.
以圣父、圣子和圣灵的名义,阿门。
- He hit the big time with films such as Ghost and Dirty Dancing.
他因《人鬼情未了》和《辣身舞》等影片走红。
- 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。
- 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。
- He gave the ghost of a smile
他露出一丝微笑。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- The battery in my car gave up the ghost.
我的汽车电池报废了。
- Mogadishu is said to be a virtual ghost town, deserted by two-thirds of its residents.
摩加迪沙2/3的居民已弃城而去,据说已成了一座名副其实的废都。
- I suspect she'll be writing it herself; she doesn't need a ghost writer.
我觉得她会自己动笔;无需他人捉刀。
- His ghost is said to haunt some of the rooms, banging a toy drum.
据说他的鬼魂经常敲着玩具鼓出没在其中的一些房间里。
- They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.
他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。
- He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.
他告诉我说他父亲的阴魂出现在他的床边。
- He looked as if he had seen a spirit [ ghost].
他那副样子好像见到鬼了。
- The ghost of Lady Margaret is supposed to haunt this chapel.
据说玛格丽特女士的鬼魂常在这个教堂出没。
- In the evening, the death-rattle sounded in his throat, and with a last gasp he gave up the ghost.
挨到晚上,痰响了一阵,喘息一回,呜呼哀哉,断气身亡。(《儒林外史》)
- She dressed herself up as a ghost.
她把自己打扮成鬼。
- He hasn't a ghost of chance of winning.
他毫无获胜的希望。
- He looked so terrified I thought he'd seen a ghost.
他看上去如此害怕,我以为他看见鬼了。
- The talk veered to ghost.
话题转向谈鬼。
- I toid you to ghost me.
我叫你要结果了我。
- It's a ghost that took their child.
鬼拿走了他们的小孩。
- Is he really seeing his father's ghost, or is he simply mad?
他真的看见了他父亲的鬼魂了吗,或他只是疯了?
- I am a ghost.
我快变成鬼了!
- Are you saying you saw a ghost?
你是说你见到鬼了?
- Your portrayal of the Black Knight ghost was inspirational to my brother and me.
你的关于黑骑士鬼的描述是对我和我兄弟的鼓舞。
- Lassoo's a ghost town.
拉苏现在是个鬼城了。
语源
Old English gāst(in the sense spirit, soul), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geestand German Geist. The gh-spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest