noun
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- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- he looked like he had seen a ghost
- it aroused specters from his past
- Synonym: ghost shade spook wraith spectre
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- a ghostly appearing figure
- we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
- Synonym: apparition phantom phantasm phantasma fantasm spectre
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The arrival of warm weather raises the specter 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
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I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building that had been periodically haunted by the specter of the upper half of a roofer who had fallen from the six story roof twenty years earlier .
我在加利福尼亚理工大学校内的一个地下室里工作。20年前,有个盖屋顶的工人从这栋六层楼的房顶摔了下去,从此,这楼就闹鬼,那个工人的上半身总在这楼里游荡。
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Pretty soon the specter of another economic downturn was causing turbulence .
很快,经济可能再度下滑的担忧引发了市场动荡。
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We also face the specter of nonlinear tipping points that may cause much more severe changes .
我们还面临另一个幽灵,那就是非线性的气候引爆点,这会带来许多严重得多的变化。
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Yet , many things are taking place that could raise the specter of inflation in rapid order .
然而,正在发生的许多事情可能让通货膨胀的幽灵迅速出现。
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Japanese primarily connect lotus flower and death as well as the specter world together .
日本人主要把莲与死亡以及幽灵世界连在一起。
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The terrible specter 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。
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High valuations and intensified competition raise the specter of lower returns for value investors generally .
高估值和强竞争增强一般价值投资者对低回报的恐惧。
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We also face the specter of nonlinear " tipping points " that may cause much more severe changes .
我们还面临另一个幽灵,那就是非线性的“气候引爆点”,这会带来许多严重得多的变化。
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Spirit , I fear you more than any specter I have yet met .
幽灵,比起我见过的那些可怕的幽灵来我更害怕你。
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Political survival appears to be the immediate reason for Senator Specter 's party switch .
政治生存似乎是Specter参议员更换党派的直接原因。
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He 'll also be trailing the specter of rising protectionism in america .
他也是美国的贸易保护主义幽灵。
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As we just heard from Michael Specter , it has changed over the years .
如同MichaelSpecter适才说道,这些概念也会改变
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It 's about this bridge , said one of the old man , that the specter haunts .
「在这座桥附近,」位老人道:「灵出没不定。
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In this last example you can see that this specter is trying to target a group of infantry .
在最后的例子中,你可以看到,幽魂炮正在瞄准一队步兵。
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A shrinking world , growing inequality ; demographic change and the specter of terrorism ,
不断收缩的世界,正在蔓延的不平等、人口的变化和恐怖主义的延伸,
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The specter of the murdered man haunted the house .
被谋杀男人的幽魂出没于这间房子的周遭。
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That along with rising oil prices and the specter of a global credit crunch is changing the picture .
再加上油价高企和全球信贷市场收缩的挤压,全球增长前景足可堪优。
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Amid the specter of a possible default on U.
美国可能拖欠债务的阴影弥漫。
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Many Republicans sought to minimize the national political fallout from the Specter defection .
许多共和党人试图将Specter脱党带来的全国性的政治余波最小化。
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Arlen Specter major force in Senate for 30 years died today at the age of 82 .
今天,在参议院持续30年占据重要地位的阿伦斯派克特离世,享年82岁。
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Specter died Sunday morning from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma .
斯派克于周日早上死于非霍奇金淋巴瘤病发症。
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The specter of overpopulation casts its pall over the access of new life anyway ;
人口过度膨胀的恐慌给新生命的诞生蒙上了阴影。
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And the specter of even still more accounting scandals could linger up until August14th .
而一直到八月十四日以前,对更多公司财务丑闻被陆续揭露还会有很多猜测。
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A specter . A ghost , a phantom , whatever you want to call it .
幽灵,鬼魂,幻影,随便你怎么说
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The specter of unemployment hunted the country .
失业的幽灵在这个国家作祟。
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and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy .
这种绝望的幽灵会成为亲密关系的动力
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The specter of international terrorism is looming again .
国际恐怖主义的幽灵又阴森地逼近了。
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He was the most successful rebel slave ; his specter would stalk the white South for a century .
他是最成功的反叛奴隶;他将秸秆白幽灵南一世纪。
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The specter of elimination from the tournament in the first round for the second straight time looms for France .
法国是98年世界杯的得主,02年却没进一球、在第一轮比赛中就被淘汰回家了。今年法国队又悬了。