| 词汇 | specter |
| 释义 | specter noun uk /ˈspek.tər/ us /ˈspek.tɚ/ US spelling ofspectre（spectre的美式拼写） Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct prefigure premonition premonitory presage prescience telepathically telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Souls, spirits & ghosts specter | American Dictionaryspecter noun[ C ] (alsospectre)us/ˈspek·tər/ something that causes fear or worry: The specter of inflation concerns many voters. The familiar specter of adversity continues to accompany him. A specter is also a ghost (= the spirit of a dead person that can be seen). Examples of specterspecter 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? See all examples of specter 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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