a ghost
幽灵，鬼魂
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a phantom who haunts lonely roads .经常在荒野路上出没的鬼魂
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figurative 〈喻〉the centrist and conservative parties were mere phantoms in 1943 中间党派和保守党派在１９４３年不过是些幽灵
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[as modifier]
a phantom ship .鬼船。
a figment of the imagination
幻象，幻觉
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he tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality 他尽力从头脑中清除幻觉，弄清现实
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[as modifier]
the women suffered from phantom pain that no physician could ever find .那些妇女有疼痛的幻觉，医生却一直无法确诊。
[as modifier]denoting a financial arrangement or transaction which has been invented for fraudulent purposes but which does not really exist
为诈骗而捏造的财务安排（或金融交易）
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he diverted an estimated ￡1,500,000 into ‘phantom 'bank accounts .他把一笔估计有１５０万英镑的款子转移到了虚假账户上。
[as modifier]denoting something, especially something illegal, that is done by an unknown person
不明身份的人做的（尤指非法的事）
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a series of phantom withdrawals from cash machines .提款机上一连串不明身份的取款。
"Middle English （also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’）： from Old French
