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单词 spectre
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spectre

noun
/ˈspektə(r)/
/ˈspektər/
(US English specter)
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  1. spectre (of something) something unpleasant that people are afraid might happen in the future
    • The country is haunted by the spectre of civil war.
    • These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.
    Extra Examples
    • The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.
    • Wall Street's collapse raised spectres of the 1987 stock market crash.
    • an attempt to exorcize the spectre of poverty
    • the looming spectre of a financial crisis
    • the twin spectres of addiction and violence
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • grim
    • ominous
    • old
    verb + spectre/​specter
    • evoke
    • invoke
    • raise
    spectre/​specter + verb
    • hang over somebody/​something
    • haunt somebody/​something
    • hover over somebody/​something
    preposition
    • spectre of
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  2. (literary) a ghost
    • Was he a spectre returning to haunt her?
  3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French spectre or Latin spectrum ‘image, apparition’, from specere ‘to look’.
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