apparition
n. 鬼, 幽灵, 幻影
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释义与例句
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1.
An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
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2.
The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
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3.
An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself.
幽灵
鬼魂
The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
The attic is said to be haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
He spoke to the apparition, and although its lips did not move, he somehow heard its reply.
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4.
The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
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A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
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词源
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
来源：wiktionary