phantasm
/ˈfæntæzəm/noun
1- poetic/literary a figment of the imagination; an illusion or apparition〈诗/文〉幻影, 幻觉; 幽灵, 鬼魂：
the cart seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm.
那辆敞篷马车像可怕的幽灵在滑动。
1.1
- archaic an illusory likeness of something〈古〉幻景, 幻象：
every phantasm of a hope was quickly nullified.
希望的所有幻景很快破灭了。
派生词
phantasmal
adjectivephantasmic
adjective词源
Middle English （in the sense 'deceptive appearance'）： from Old French fantasme, via Latin from Greek phantasma, from phantazein 'make visible', from phainein 'to show'. The change from f- to ph- in the 16th cent. was influenced by the Latin spelling.