| 词汇 | example_english_specter |
| 释义 | Examples of specterThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Work on the project paid poorly and involved high risks : permanent disability and death were a constant specter. These and other developments raised the specter of a southern racism on the march - a northward march. Even after more than a decade of democratic rule, a substantial majority is still haunted by the specter of a repressive state to varying degrees. I mention the pauper funeral here because its specter motivated members of the working class to avoid its ignominy at whatever cost. But why did the specter of racial change elicit such a reaction then and not other times-to the creation of minority majority districts for example? Our speculation directly stems from this specular image and reflects back our own specter and thus our own reading process. And this is the final specter, the zero degree of the reader. On one hand, the specter of "cloned" human beings produced through reproductive cloning is widely rejected as an illegitimate field of scientific endeavor. The institution of baby-farming raised the specter of economic motherhood in a number of different ways. More than that, the specter of the growing rate of honor crimes threatens women to stay well within the bounds of social expectation. The story begins, then, with the specter of male brutality and domestic violence. Advocates of the impost/tariff constantly raised the specter of a direct tax. Is the choice of a parent to take risks for the sake of her child truly free, or is the specter of coercion necessarily raised? Dependency and deterioration, not death itself, is the specter of old age. Why do the specters of these others return? These two specters are, of course, related. Investing public pension assets in equities rather than government bonds would reduce (though not eliminate) this problem, though it would also raise the specter of political interference in investment decisions. Varying endlessly across the entire range of human experience, communities raise the specter of moral relativism that makes ethics sometimes seem a misguided and futile enterprise. My hope that the dual-process approach would allow members of the ecological camp to live with the specter of "mental processes" has, at least in this case, not been realized. The specter focuses this trouble of belief. Although we're well aware of the titles of books that have been banned over the years, we have been inexplicably slow to respond to the frightening specter of "chemical censorship". More ominously, they raised the specter of the intercommunal disorder that would be brought about by struggles for leadership and the control of finances within the new municipality. He becomes yet another specter, a ghost. What accounts for the specter of a group of forensic specialists gathering to deny the scientific basis of practice which had functioned well for at least seventy years? These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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