specter

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈspɛktə/    美 /ˈspɛktɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A ghostly apparition, a phantom. US
    — A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
  2. A threatening mental image; an unpleasant prospect US,figuratively
    — A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
  3. Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae. US
  4. Any of various species of Asian danaid butterflies of the genus Idea, family Nymphalidae. US
    — The large and handsome spectre-butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.

词形变化

specters plural spectre alternative,Commonwealth,English

词汇关系

衍生词
Brocken specter Macleay's spectre mountain specter raise the specter specter at the feast specter bat specter candle specterlike specter of the Brocken specter shrimp spectral

词源

From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.
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