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Перевод: spectre

[существительное]
привидение; призрак ; дурное предчувствие

Тезаурус:

1. Today, the spectre of Shanghai's past haunts the Hong Kong's future.
2. Diana has made the transition from girl to woman and has become secure and fulfilled; Charles has confronted the spectre of middle age and doubt, and emerged certain.
3. While Mrs Thatcher yesterday celebrated the achievements of the Thatcher Revolution, a spectre of the past was hovering over Blackpool - decline.
4. The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill's reforms, tepid and half-hearted as they were, raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along.
5. THE spectre of road pricing - charging for the roads on the basis of pay-as-you-drive - is again lurking in the political shadows.
6. Suddenly the palace was haunted by the terrible spectre of total defeat: " anguished cries could be heard throughout the darkened building such as those which a group of women would utter at the sight of some terrible phantom".
7. Hong Kong Special Report: The spectre haunting Hong Kong's future: The "Jewels of the Orient" are now a string of tarnished beads.
8. Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition, should it not be properly accomplished, and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference.
9. The spectre of comprehensive schools nevertheless remained an alarming one, and not least to those who taught in the secure and effective world of grammar schools.
10. At the time NME 's letters page was full of hysterical prose from students concerned about the spectre of dance music.
11. A subsequent debate on the same issue in March 1982 was also full of references to the experience of 1981, the impact of street violence, crime, decaying urban conditions, the breakdown of consent between the police and many local communities, and the spectre of "more violence to come" if changes in both policing tactics and social policy were not swiftly introduced ( Hansard , vol. 20, 25 March 1982: cols. 1107-;81).
12. This is grist to the horror-story mill, raising the spectre of gangs of streetwise foxes savaging the nave livestock of the countryside.