柯林斯詞典spectre /?sp?ktr?/ (spectres) [英國(guó)英語(yǔ)] 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(duì)某事可能會(huì)發(fā)生而產(chǎn)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(duì)報(bào)復(fù)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(duì)于…的恐懼（或憂慮） The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country . 內(nèi)戰(zhàn)的陰云籠罩著全國(guó)。 Drought and war have raised the spectre of food shortages for up to 24 million African people . 干旱和戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)引起了2400萬(wàn)非洲人民對(duì)于食品短缺的恐懼。 [ 可數(shù)名詞：有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] literary a ghost (SPIRIT) 幽靈；鬼魂 返回 spectre