phantom
n
1
(a) (also phantasm) ghostly image or figure; ghost 幽灵; 鬼魂
the phantom of his dead father 他亡父的幽灵
[attrib 作定语]
the legend of the phantom ship 鬼船的传说.
(b) [esp attrib 尤作定语]
(joc 谑) person whose actions are known about, but whose identity is (supposedly) not known 知其行为而不知其身分的人
The phantom cake-eater has been here again! 那神出鬼没的偷吃蛋糕的人又来过这儿了!
2 unreal or imagined thing, as seen in a dream or vision; illusion 不真实的或想像的事物; 梦幻之物; 幻觉
[attrib 作定语]
the phantom visions created by a tormented mind 受折磨的心灵产生的幻觉
phantom pregnancy, ie condition in which a woman wrongly believes she is pregnant and in which some of the symptoms of pregnancy may appear 精神性假妊娠.
I heard through the grapevine that the minister is going to resign.
我听到小道消息,首相将辞职。
It was eleven o'clock when he finally showed up.
他最后露面时,已经11点钟了。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.