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- an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image鬼, 鬼魂：
the building is haunted by the ghost of a monk.
这座楼里常有一个和尚的鬼魂出没。
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- as modifier appearing or manifesting but not actually existing虚幻的, 实际不存在的：
the Flying Dutchman is the most famous ghost ship.
“空中荷兰人”是最有名的幻影船。
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- a faint trace of something微弱痕迹, 隐约的一丝：
she gave the ghost of a smile.
她脸上露出一丝微笑。
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- archaic a spirit or soul〈古〉幽灵; 灵魂。
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- a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or on a cathode ray screen, e.g. by faulty television reception or internal reflection in a mirror or camera（由于光学系统中或阴极射线屏上的故障如电视接收故障, 镜面或照相机内反射等而产生的）重影。
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- with obj. act as ghost writer of (a work)为…捉刀代笔：
his memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist.
他的回忆录是由一位记者不露痕迹地代笔的。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction glide smoothly and effortlessly（平稳不费力地）滑行：
they ghosted up the river.
他们沿河向上游平稳轻松地滑行。
短语
the ghost in the machine
- Philosophy the mind viewed as distinct from the body (usually used in a derogatory fashion by critics of dualism)【哲】机器里出鬼（喻指身心有别或身心独立论, 通常系二元论的批评者用来指身心有别论的贬抑用语）。
- ORIGIN: coined by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle (1949).
give up the ghost
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- die死亡。
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- (of a machine) stop working（机器）停止工作。
look as if you have seen a ghost
- look very pale and shocked看上去面无人色, 惶恐不已。
not stand the ghost of a chance
- have no chance at all根本没有机会。
派生词
ghostlike
adjective词源
Old English gāst （in the sense 'spirit, soul'）, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.