spec·tre
noun/ˈspektə(r)/
/ˈspektər/
(US English specter)
- spectre (of something) something unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future
恐惧；恐慌；忧虑 - The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
内战仿佛一触即发，举国上下一片恐慌。 - These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.
几星期来的干旱再次引起了群众对大饥荒的恐慌。
Extra Examples- The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.
内战可怕的阴云再一次笼罩这个国家。 - Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
华尔街股市暴跌引发了 1987 年股市崩盘时的那种恐慌。 - an attempt to exorcize the spectre of poverty
驱逐贫困这个幽灵的努力 - the looming spectre of a financial crisis
金融危机步步逼近的恐慌 - the twin spectres of addiction and violence
成瘾和暴力这一对孪生魔鬼
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grim
- ominous
- old
- …
- evoke
- invoke
- raise
- …
- hang over somebody/something
- haunt somebody/something
- hover over somebody/something
- …
- spectre of
- The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
- (literary) a ghost
鬼 - Was he a spectre returning to haunt her?
是不是他的幽灵回来找她了？
- Was he a spectre returning to haunt her?
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French spectre or Latin spectrum ‘image, apparition’, from specere ‘to look’.