ghost word
基本解释
- （字典或词汇表中通常因为错误而出现的）幽灵字，幽灵词。
同根派生
英汉例句
- Sixty-nine years ago today a ghost word was outed from its hiding place on page 771 of Webster's New International Dictionary where it had spent five comfortable years.
六十九年前的今天，一个谜一样的词被世人发现，这个词在韦伯斯特新国际字典的771页整整藏了5年。 - I would like to have a word with you.
我想同你说句话。 - The car seems to have given up the ghost.
看来这汽车算是报销了。 - He seems to have given up the ghost on this job.
他似乎已经放弃了这项工作。 - The ghost story made our hair stand on end.
这个鬼的故事使我怕得要命。
英英字典
- a word in a dictionary or another list of words that is not a real word and is usually there because of a mistake