spectre

menace, spectre

Possibilité inquiétante qu’un malheur ou un événement néfaste se produise.

En anglais simple : The worrying possibility that something bad will happen.

• The spectre of war frightened everyone.
• Job cuts raised the spectre of unemployment.
• The spectre of another drought hangs over the region.

Comment l'utiliser : the spectre of something (The spectre of poverty worried the family.)

Synonymes : threat

Expressions courantes : spectre of war, raise the spectre, spectre of unemployment

spectre, fantôme

Apparition d’une personne morte que l’on croit visible aux vivants.

En anglais simple : The visible form of a dead person, believed to appear to living people.

• A spectre appeared at the window.
• They claimed to have seen a spectre in the castle.
• The pale spectre vanished before dawn.

Synonymes : ghost, apparition, phantom

Expressions courantes : pale spectre, ghostly spectre, see a spectre