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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- ghost [gost] [gəust]
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1.
noun
原义：精神，灵魂[现只用于give up the ghost（死，断气）和用于Holy Ghost[宗教]圣灵]
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2.
noun
鬼；幽灵
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3.
noun
萦绕于心头（或不易忘怀）的记忆
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4.
noun
[photography]
重象；幻象；幻影；行迹；细微的迹象；微量，一点儿，一丝，一些
- not a ghost of a chance
- 毫无机会
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5.
noun
[American English]
[verbal]
【同义词】ghostwriter
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6.
noun
[television]
[optics]
（电视屏幕上的）重影，重象，幻象；偏析色带
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7.
noun
受雇而代为作文（或画）的人，捉刀人
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8.
noun
血影细胞
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9.
vi.
[American English]
[verbal]
受雇而代为作文（或画），为人捉刀（for）
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10.
vt.
（鬼魂等）常出没于，老是附在…身上；幽灵似地缠住（某人）；（回忆等）萦绕
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11.
vt.
[American English]
[verbal]
受雇而代作文（或画）
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1.
noun
原义：精神，灵魂[现只用于give up the ghost（死，断气）和用于Holy Ghost[宗教]圣灵]
Collins English-English Dictionary
- ghost [gəυst]
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n
the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom
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2.
n
ghost edition an entry recorded in a bibliography of which no actual proof exists
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3.
n
a haunting memory
- the ghost of his former life rose up before him
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4.
n
a faint trace or possibility of something; glimmer
- a ghost of a smile
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5.
n
the spirit; soul (archaic, except in the phrase the Holy Ghost)
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6.
n
[physics]
a faint secondary image produced by an optical system
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7.
n
a similar image on a television screen, formed by reflection of the transmitting waves or by a defect in the receiver
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8.
n
See ghost word
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9.
n
Another name for ghostwriter
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10.
n
[modifier]
falsely recorded as doing a particular job or fulfilling a particular function in order that some benefit, esp money, may be obtained
- a ghost worker
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11.
vb
See ghostwrite
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12.
vt.
[tr]
to haunt
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13.
vi.
[intr]
to move effortlessly and smoothly, esp unnoticed
- he ghosted into the penalty area
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14.
vi.
[Etymology]
Old English g
a st; related to Old Frisian je st, Old High German geist spirit, Sanskrit he da fury, anger
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1.
n
the disembodied spirit of a dead person, supposed to haunt the living as a pale or shadowy vision; phantom
Examples
- not a ghost of a chance
- 毫无机会 → ghost
- to give up the ghost
- 绝望 → ghost
- the ghost of a chance (of doing sth)
- 只有很少机会（做某事） → ghost
- a ghost story
- 一个鬼故事 → story
- the ghost of his former life rose up before him → ghost
- a ghost of a smile → ghost
- a ghost worker → ghost
- you look like you've just seen a ghost → like
- the ghost resolved itself into a tree → resolve
- he looked as though he'd seen a ghost → as though
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