spectre
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT If you refer to the spectre of something unpleasant, you are referring to something that you are frightened might occur. (對某事可能會發(fā)生而産生的) 縈繞心頭的恐懼[usu 'the' N 'of' n]
The arrests raised the spectre of revenge attacks. 拘捕增加了對報複性攻擊的恐懼。
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spectre /?sp?ktr?/ (spectres)
[英國英語]AM specter
劍橋詞典
- ?the spectre of sth
the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future
對於…的恐懼（或憂慮）
The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country . 內(nèi)戰(zhàn)的隂雲(yún)籠罩著全國。
Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people . 乾旱和戰(zhàn)爭引起了2400萬非洲人民對於食品短缺的恐懼。
[ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ] literary
a ghost (SPIRIT)
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