及物动词

不及物动词

名词

1. 鬼；幽灵
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.

2. （尤指对可怕事物的）记忆，回忆
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.

3. 一丝；一点
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.

4. 代人写作；为人代笔
If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.

5. 没有一点（成功的）可能；机会渺茫
If someone does not stand or does not have a ghost of a chance of doing something, they have very little chance of succeeding in it.

6. （人）放弃，撂挑子；（机器）报废，不再运转
If someone gives up the ghost, they stop trying to do something because they no longer believe they can do it successfully. If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working.

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience

e.g. he looked like he had seen a ghost
it aroused specters from his past

Synonym: shadespookwraithspecterspectre

2. a suggestion of some quality

e.g. there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
he detected a ghost of a smile on her face

Synonym: touchtrace

3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

4. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Synonym: ghostwriter