phantom
noun /ˈfæntəm/
/ˈfæntəm/
- a ghost
鬼;鬼魂;幽灵 - the phantom of his dead father
他已故父亲的幽灵
- the phantom of his dead father
- a thing that exists only in your imagination
幻觉;幻象 - Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
幻影和嵌合体占据了她的大脑。
- Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.
词源Middle English (also in the sense ‘illusion, delusion’): from Old French fantosme, based on Greek phantasma, from phantazein ‘make visible’, from phainein ‘to show’.