ghost
ghost 英 [gəʊst] 美 [goʊst]
n. 鬼，幽灵 vt. 作祟于；替…捉刀；为人代笔 vi. 替人代笔
进行时:ghosting 过去式:ghosted 过去分词:ghosted 第三人称单数:ghosts 名词复数:ghosts
- A ghost is the spirit of a person who's died. In most stories and myths, ghosts are pale, translucent, and wispy.
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- n. 鬼，幽灵
- vt. 作祟于；替…捉刀；为人代笔
- vi. 替人代笔
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1. The boy contended that he saw a ghost.
这个男孩硬说他看见了鬼。
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2. He loaded his friends up with ghost stories.
他向朋友大讲鬼故事。
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3. He looked as if he had seen a spirit [ghost].
他那副样子好像见到鬼了。
- 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 (source also of 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 (source also of Sanskrit hedah "wrath;" Avestan zaesha- "horrible, frightful;" Gothic usgaisjan, Old English gæstan "to frighten").
- 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.
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