1. 鬼；幽靈 A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
e.g. ...the ghost of Marie Antoinette... 瑪麗·安托瓦妮特的幽靈 e.g. The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children. 死去的孩子們的幽靈常在該村出沒(méi)。
2. （尤指對可怕事物的）記憶，回憶 The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
e.g. The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement. 總統正借這兩次訪(fǎng)問(wèn)來(lái)消除《慕尼黑協(xié)定》的陰影。 e.g. ...the ghost of economic mismanagement. 經(jīng)濟管理不善的夢(mèng)魘
3. 一絲；一點(diǎn) If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
e.g. He gave the ghost of a smile... 他露出一絲微笑。 e.g. The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west. 陽(yáng)光和煦，僅有一絲西北風(fēng)輕輕吹拂。
4. 代人寫(xiě)作；為人代筆 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.
e.g. I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail... 我出版了《每日郵報》的女記者為他代筆的自傳，寫(xiě)得頗具文采。 e.g. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph. 我為他代寫(xiě)《電訊報》每周的橄欖球專(zhuān)欄。
5. 沒(méi)有一點(diǎn)（成功的）可能；機會(huì )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.
e.g. He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house. 那房子他根本不可能賣(mài)得出去。
6. （人）放棄，撂挑子；（機器）報廢，不再運轉 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.
e.g. Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for... 一些公司沒(méi)等找到目標便已放棄。 e.g. The battery in my car gave up the ghost. 我的汽車(chē)電池報廢了。
ghost英英釋義
noun
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
ghost
verb
1. write for someone else
e.g. How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
Synonym: ghostwrite
2. haunt like a ghost pursue
e.g. Fear of illness haunts her
Synonym: hauntobsess
3. move like a ghost
e.g. The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard