英汉词典

ghost 基本解释

• n. 鬼，幽灵
• vt. 作祟于；替…捉刀；为人代笔
• vi. 替人代笔

ghost 词态变化

ghost 中文词源

来自PIE*gheis, 兴奋，恐惧，臆想，词源同ghastly, zeitgeist.

ghost 英文词源

ghost

ghost: [OE] In Old English times, ghost was simply a synonym for ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ (a sense preserved in Holy Ghost); it did not acquire its modern connotations of the ‘disembodied spirit of a dead person appearing among the living’ until the 14th century. However, since it has been traced back to Indo-European *ghois- or *gheis-, which also produced Old Norse geisa ‘rage’, Sanskrit hédas ‘anger’, and Gothic usgaisjan ‘terrify’, it could well be that its distant ancestor denoted as frightening concept as the modern English word does.

The Old English form of the word was gāst, which in Middle English became gost; the gh- spelling, probably inspired by Flemish gheest, first appeared at the end of the 15th century, and gradually established itself over the next hundred years.
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ghost (n.)

Old English gast "breath; good or bad spirit, angel, demon; person, man, human being," in Biblical use "soul, spirit, life," from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz (cognates: Old Saxon gest, Old Frisian jest, Middle Dutch gheest, Dutch geest, German Geist "spirit, ghost"). This is conjectured to be from a PIE root *gheis-, used in forming words involving the notions of excitement, amazement, or fear (cognates: Sanskrit hedah "wrath;" Avestan zaesha- "horrible, frightful;" Gothic usgaisjan, Old English gæstan "to frighten").

Ghost is the English representative of the usual West Germanic word for "supernatural being." In Christian writing in Old English it is used to render Latin spiritus (see spirit (n.)), a sense preserved in Holy Ghost. Sense of "disembodied spirit of a dead person," especially imagined as wandering among the living or haunting them, is attested from late 14c. and returns the word toward its likely prehistoric sense.

Most Indo-European words for "soul, spirit" also double with reference to supernatural spirits. Many have a base sense of "appearance" (such as Greek phantasma; French spectre; Polish widmo, from Old Church Slavonic videti "to see;" Old English scin, Old High German giskin, originally "appearance, apparition," related to Old English scinan, Old High German skinan "to shine"). Other concepts are in French revenant, literally "returning" (from the other world), Old Norse aptr-ganga, literally "back-comer." Breton bugelnoz is literally "night-child." Latin manes probably is a euphemism.

The gh- spelling appeared early 15c. in Caxton, influenced by Flemish and Middle Dutch gheest, but was rare in English before mid-16c. Sense of "slight suggestion, mere shadow or semblance" (in ghost image, ghost of a chance, etc.) is first recorded 1610s; sense of "one who secretly does work for another" is from 1884. Ghost town is from 1908. Ghost story is by 1811. Ghost-word "apparent word or false form in a manuscript due to a blunder" is from 1886 (Skeat). Ghost in the machine was British philosopher Gilbert Ryle's term (1949) for "the mind viewed as separate from the body." The American Indian ghost dance is from 1890. To give up the ghost "die" was in Old English.

ghost (v.)

"to ghost-write," 1922, back-formation from ghost-writing (1919) "article written by one man upon material supplied in interview or otherwise by a second and which appears in print over the signature of such second party" ["The Ghost Writer and His Story" [Graves Glenwood Clark, in "The Editor," Feb. 25, 1920], from ghost (n.) "one who secretly does work for another (1884). Related: Ghost-written. Ghost-writing also was used from c. 1902 for secret writing using lemon juice, etc. A late 19c. term for "one whose work is credited to another" was gooseberry-picker.

ghost 词组搭配

ghost 英文释义

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience;

"he looked like he had seen a ghost"

"it aroused specters from his past"

2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

4. a suggestion of some quality;

"there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"

"he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

ghost 同义词解析

soul, ghost, spirit

这些名词均含"灵魂，心灵"之意。

soul： 指超越身体之外，永远存在的无形的东西，即所谓灵魂，亦可作人解。

ghost： 普通用词，主要指死者的灵魂。

spirit： 当指与body相对而言的所谓灵魂时，可与soul互换使用，但强调人的精神素质，也指神仙、精灵等。

ghost 双语例句

1. They stumble across a ghost town inhabited by a rascally gold prospector.

他们偶然来到一个居住着一位狡诈的淘金者的废墟之城。

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2. He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.

那房子他根本不可能卖得出去。

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3. The battery in my car gave up the ghost.

我的汽车电池报废了。

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4. Articles were ghost-written by company employees.

这些文章由公司的职员捉刀。

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5. a creepy ghost story

令人毛骨悚然的鬼故事

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ghost 实用场景例句

They ghosted up the smooth waters of the river.

他们无声地航行在平静的河水上。

牛津词典

My car finally gave up the ghost.

我的汽车终于报废了。

牛津词典

Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist) ?

你相信有鬼吗？

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the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her

萦绕在她脑际的父亲的幽灵

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He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened) .

他那副样子就像是见到鬼一样。

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The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.

反犹主义在欧洲阴魂不散。

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There was a ghost of a smile on his face.

他脸上露出隐隐的一丝微笑。

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You don't have a ghost of a chance (= you have no chance) .

你一点儿机会都没有。

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...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...

玛丽·安托瓦妮特的幽灵

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.

死去的孩子们的幽灵常在该村出没。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement.

总统正借这两次访问来消除《慕尼黑协定》的阴影。

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...the ghost of economic mismanagement.

经济管理不善的梦魇

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He gave the ghost of a smile...

他露出一丝微笑。

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The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.

阳光和煦，仅有一丝西北风轻轻吹拂。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail...

我出版了《每日邮报》的女记者为他代笔的自传，写得颇具文采。

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I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.

我为他代写《电讯报》每周的橄榄球专栏。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.

那房子他根本不可能卖得出去。

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Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for...

一些公司没等找到目标便已放弃。

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The battery in my car gave up the ghost.

我的汽车电池报废了。

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He looked as if he had seen a ghost.

他好象见了鬼似的(很惊慌的样子).

《现代英汉综合大词典》

How Dr. Sun's ghost would rebuke these unworthy followers of his!

孙先生在天之灵,真不知怎样责备这些不肖子孙呢!

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He told me the ghost of his father appeared at his bedside.

他告诉我说他父亲的阴魂出现在他的床边.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The ghost of a smile played round her lips.

她嘴角露出一丝微笑.

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It is a superstitious idea that the ghost can cast a living man under a spell.

鬼魂能迷住人是一种迷信的观念.

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He looked so terrified that I thought he'd seen a ghost.

他看上去如此害怕,我以为他看见鬼了.

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I thought I saw a ghost, but perhaps it was only a trick of the light.

我以为我看见鬼了, 但这大概不过是灯光在捉弄人.

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He looked as if he had seen a spirit [ ghost ] .

他那副样子好像见到 鬼 了.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The ghost of a hanged poacher is said to haunt the manor house.

据说一个吊死的偷猎者的鬼魂常在这个庄园里出没.

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It got a bIt'spooky when James started telling ghost stories.

詹姆斯开始讲鬼故事的时候,有点让人汗毛直竖.

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