apparition
apparition 英 [ˌæpəˈrɪʃn] 美 [ˌæpəˈrɪʃən]
n. 幽灵；幻影；鬼怪；离奇出现的东西
名词复数:apparitions
- If you see something you think might be a ghost, you can call it an apparition to hedge your bets. Apparition doesn't commit you in the same way the word ghost does—and saying that you've seen one won't cause you to be committed.
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- n. 幽灵；幻影；鬼怪；离奇出现的东西
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1. Before this awful apparition I retreat in terror -- a terror that is upon me as I write.
在此幻影前，我在恐惧中退却--这种恐惧即便现在我写作时依然伴随着我。
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2. This apparition grew to a fine old age, until he reached a maturity he could not improve on, and now he haunts the church in which his parents had married.
和拉霍斯.佛斯林汉姆不同，他长得很瘦弱，讲故事的时候手里一直紧握着白兰地酒杯。 “那鬼怪一直长到它成熟为止，现在，它就在它父母当年结婚的那家教堂出没。”
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3. She laughed and coughed, and the husband ran from the room ashen-faced, as if he’d seen a fulminating witch, a dead woman speaking, some kind of horror-flick apparition.
她边笑边咳嗽，丈夫脸色苍白从房间里跑出来，好像他见到了一个喜好怒斥人的巫婆，一个死亡女人的讲话，某种恐怖片里的幽灵似的。
- apparition (n.) early 15c., "supernatural appearance or manifestation," from Anglo-French aparicion, Old French aparicion, aparoison (15c.), used in reference to the Epiphany (the revealing of the Christ child to the Wise Men), from Late Latin apparitionem (nominative apparitio) "an appearance," also "attendants," in classical Latin "service; servants," noun of action from past participle stem of apparere "appear" (see appear). Meaning "ghost" first recorded c. 1600; the sense differentiation between appearance and apparition is that the latter tends to be unexpected or startling. Related: Apparitional.
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