柯林斯詞典spectre /?sp?ktr?/ (spectres) [英國英語] AM specter1. N-COUNT If you refer to the spectre of something unpleasant, you are referring to something that you are frightened might occur. (對某事可能會發(fā)生而產生的) 縈繞心頭的恐懼[usu 'the' N 'of' n] The arrests raised the spectre of revenge attacks. 拘捕增加了對報復性攻擊的恐懼。 返回 spectre劍橋詞典?the spectre of sth the idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future 對于…的恐懼（或憂慮） The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country . 內戰(zhàn)的陰云籠罩著全國。 Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people . 干旱和戰(zhàn)爭引起了2400萬非洲人民對于食品短缺的恐懼。 [ 可數(shù)名詞：有復數(shù)形式的名詞 ] literary a ghost (SPIRIT) 幽靈；鬼魂 返回 spectre