soul, ghost, spirit

名詞 ghost:

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

動詞 ghost:

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

1. I can't have seen a ghost it must have been imagination.
   我看到的不可能是鬼－－一定是幻想的東西吧。
2. The ghost has been laid and will not return to haunt you again.
   那鬼魂已經(jīng)祛除，不會再回來纏著你了。
3. The car seems to have given up the ghost.
   看來這汽車算是報銷了。
4. Her gold-medal victory laid the ghost of her shock defeat in the European Championships.
   她在歐洲錦標賽中的慘敗終因她奪得金牌的勝利而雪恥。
5. He was shaking with fright as if he had seen a ghost.
   他嚇得直哆嗦，就好像看見了鬼一樣。

ghost

n.（名詞）
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：死人的精神或靈魂，尤指被認為能以身體再現(xiàn)于活人身上或經(jīng)常在以前的住處出現(xiàn)的
The center of spiritual life; the soul.
靈魂：精神生活的中心；靈魂
A demon or spirit.
惡魔，靈魂
A returning or haunting memory or image.
幻影，幻象：常出現(xiàn)或縈繞腦際的記憶或幻影

A slight or faint trace:
微量：一絲或細微的痕跡：
例句：
just a ghost of a smile.
只有一絲微笑

The tiniest bit:
最小的量：
例句：
not a ghost of a chance.
毫無機會

A faint, false image, as:
假象：一種微弱虛幻的影象，如：
A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves.
疊影：電視或雷達屏幕上出現(xiàn)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：由照相機的光學系統(tǒng)引起而出現(xiàn)在照片上的重像或幻影
A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating.
鬼線：衍射光柵中的不完整衍射引起一條虛幻的鬼線
A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.
幻像：由鏡前玻璃反射而引起的鏡子中的幻像或重像
Informal A ghostwriter.
【非正式用語】 替人捉刀者，代筆人

A nonexistent publication listed in bibliographies.
鬼書：書目中列出的一種不存在的出版物
A fictitious employee or business.
杜撰的人，虛構的企業(yè)
Physiology A red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
【生理學】 血影細胞：失去血紅蛋白的一種紅血細胞
v.（動詞）
ghost.ed,ghost.ing,ghosts
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
Informal To engage in ghostwriting.
【非正式用語】 替人代筆，充當捉刀
To move noiselessly like a ghost:
象鬼魂似的悄無聲息地移動：
例句：
.Two young deer ghosted out of the woods.(Nancy M. Debevoise)
.兩只幼鹿無聲無息地跑出樹林.(南希M.德比烏斯)

v.tr.（及物動詞）
To haunt.
鬼魂出沒
Informal To ghostwrite:
【非正式用語】 代筆：
例句：
was hired to ghost the memoirs of a famous executive.
被雇來替一著名的官員代筆寫自傳

來源：
Middle English gost
中古英語 gost
from Old English g3st [breath, spirit]
源自 古英語 g3st [氣息，精神]

【引伸】
ghost.y
adj.（形容詞）