specter

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At these times, people naturally begin to fear the specter of the next recession.
這種關(guān)頭，人們開始害怕那第二次衰退的幽靈便也在情理之中。
After President Bush invoked the specter of World War III to press the urgency of stopping Iran, the Administration followed up with another round of punitive measures.
在布什總統(tǒng)召喚第三次世界大戰(zhàn)的幽靈以促使人們認識阻止伊朗的緊迫性后，美國當(dāng)局采取了另一輪懲罰性措施。
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A specter is haunting America, the specter of Europe. Which is just one reason why Barack Obama’s first two years have been such a tonic for conservatism.
在美國，有個幽靈陰魂不散，那就是來自歐洲的幽靈，不過這只是巴拉克·奧巴馬入職兩年來一直在為保守主義“服務(wù)”的原因之一。

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.
Milton's bogey seems to be the specter hovering over women poets or women writers who may find in Milton an identification of poetic strength with masculinity itself.
彌爾頓的惑眾謠言似乎是指依附在女詩人,和女作家心中的幽靈，她們在彌爾頓身上發(fā)現(xiàn),詩的力量與男性力量本身是同源的。
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Now when Virginia Woolf writes that Milton's bogey has shut out the view of his female readers, she seems to be suggesting that the specter of Milton blinds women to the things that they should be seeing, the most important truths out there in the world.
當(dāng)佛吉尼亞·伍爾夫?qū)懙缽洜栴D的惑眾謠言遮擋了,她的女性讀者的目光時，她似乎是在說,彌爾頓的幽靈讓女性對她們應(yīng)該看到的,東西視而不見，這些東西正是世間最重要的真理。
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Senator Arlen Specter has scheduled a Judiciary Committee hearing for a week from today.
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