ghost

soul, ghost, spirit

名词 ghost:

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience
   同义词：shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre
2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
   同义词：ghostwriter
3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
4. a suggestion of some quality
   同义词：touch, trace

动词 ghost:

1. move like a ghost
2. haunt like a ghost; pursue
   同义词：haunt, obsess
3. write for someone else
   同义词：ghostwrite

1. I can't have seen a ghost it must have been imagination.
   我看到的不可能是鬼－－一定是幻想的东西吧。
2. The ghost has been laid and will not return to haunt you again.
   那鬼魂已经祛除，不会再回来缠著你了。
3. The car seems to have given up the ghost.
   看来这汽车算是报销了。
4. Her gold-medal victory laid the ghost of her shock defeat in the European Championships.
   她在欧洲锦标赛中的惨败终因她夺得金牌的胜利而雪耻。
5. He was shaking with fright as if he had seen a ghost.
   他吓得直哆嗦，就好像看见了鬼一样。

ghost

n.（名词）
The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
鬼，鬼魂：死人的精神或灵魂，尤指被认为能以身体再现于活人身上或经常在以前的住处出现的
The center of spiritual life; the soul.
灵魂：精神生活的中心；灵魂
A demon or spirit.
恶魔，灵魂
A returning or haunting memory or image.
幻影，幻象：常出现或萦绕脑际的记忆或幻影

A slight or faint trace:
微量：一丝或细微的痕迹：
例句：
just a ghost of a smile.
只有一丝微笑

The tiniest bit:
最小的量：
例句：
not a ghost of a chance.
毫无机会

A faint, false image, as:
假象：一种微弱虚幻的影象，如：
A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
叠影：电视或雷达屏幕上出现的由反射波引起的重像
A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera.
重影：由照相机的光学系统引起而出现在照片上的重像或幻影
A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.
鬼线：衍射光栅中的不完整衍射引起一条虚幻的鬼线
A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
幻像：由镜前玻璃反射而引起的镜子中的幻像或重像
Informal A ghostwriter.
【非正式用语】 替人捉刀者，代笔人

A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
鬼书：书目中列出的一种不存在的出版物
A fictitious employee or business.
杜撰的人，虚构的企业
Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
【生理学】 血影细胞：失去血红蛋白的一种红血细胞
v.（动词）
ghost.ed,ghost.ing,ghosts
v.intr.（不及物动词）
Informal To engage in ghostwriting.
【非正式用语】 替人代笔，充当捉刀
To move noiselessly like a ghost:
象鬼魂似的悄无声息地移动：
例句：
.Two young deer ghosted out of the woods.(Nancy M. Debevoise)
.两只幼鹿无声无息地跑出树林.(南希M.德比乌斯)

v.tr.（及物动词）
To haunt.
鬼魂出没
Informal To ghostwrite:
【非正式用语】 代笔：
例句：
was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.
被雇来替一著名的官员代笔写自传

来源：
Middle English gost
中古英语 gost
from Old English g3st [breath, spirit]
源自 古英语 g3st [气息，精神]

【引伸】
ghost.y
adj.（形容词）