spectre

脅威、不安

悪いことが起こるかもしれないという、不安を与える可能性。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： the spectre of something (The spectre of poverty worried the family.)

類義語： threat

よく使う表現： spectre of war, raise the spectre, spectre of unemployment

幽霊、亡霊

死んだ人が、生きている人の前に現れると信じられている姿。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： ghost, apparition, phantom

よく使う表現： pale spectre, ghostly spectre, see a spectre