| 单词 | phantom |
| 释义 | phantom (once / 686 pages) nadj Look over there, across the room. Is that a phantom, some weary soul come back from the dead to haunt you? Maybe it’s a shadow, or maybe it’s a ghost. Either way, turn on a light and it’ll disappear. Hopefully. Sleeping is difficult if there’s a phantom in your room, because who can rest with ghosts around? Some phantoms are real, but phantom can also be used to mean "a trick of the mind," like hearing a person outside your window, but then realizing it’s only the phantom rustling of leaves in a tree. Phantom limb is when someone loses an arm or leg, but their brain can still feel where their limb used to be. WORD FAMILYphantom: phantomly, phantoms USAGE EXAMPLESLovell spent four years as a test pilot and later was the program manager for the F4H Phantom Fighter jet. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) These "phantom breaches" and account takeovers were proving tempting for criminal hackers, said Mr Newman. BBC(Dec 18, 2016) How about marginal tax rates, or too big to fail, or international trade, or the phantom stimulus spending “multiplier”? Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) 1n something existing in perception only Syn|Hypo|Hyper apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, shadow UFO, flying saucer, unidentified flying object an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins Flying Dutchmana phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook, wraitha mental representation of some haunting experience illusion, semblance an erroneous mental representation 2n a ghostly appearing figure Syn|Hypo|Hyper apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, specter, spectre Flying Dutchman the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day disembodied spirit, spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings 3adj something apparently sensed but having no physical reality seemed to hear faint phantom bells the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb Syn unreal not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary |
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