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词汇 apparition
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Definition of apparition in English:

apparition

noun apəˈrɪʃ(ə)nˌæpəˈrɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.

    幽灵;人的幽灵般的幻影

    a headless apparition
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So, basically, I spent every Saturday for about a year in the NY library researching ghosts, apparitions, synchronicity, paranormal and parapsychology.
    • Miranda, not her, but a ghostly apparition of what she was, rose up on the roof of the car.
    • Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic.
    • The ghosts aren't malignant apparitions; they're special effects.
    • These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
    • Unless I am establishing an alibi or there are ghostly apparitions hovering next to me, I'm not too bothered at seeing pictures of myself somewhere, but of course I'm too polite to say anything.
    • The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
    • In the case of apparitions, or true ghosts, it's the idea of the human consciousness surviving the death of the body and sticking around and somehow being capable of communicating or interacting with us.
    • In front of him stood five ghostly apparitions.
    • At this point, you have come to believe that you have a haunted house with bumps, rappings, ghostly footsteps and even apparitions that roam the hallways.
    • His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition.
    • She became a shadow of her former self, like a ghost, an apparition that makes the same trip every day unable to finish it, bound to start it all over again.
    • They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
    • Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
    • He seeks to understand the truth behind the stories of good and bad angels, magic, apparitions, vampires, witchcraft, possession by demons, and the dead who come back to life.
    • These ghostly floating apparitions ranged from a pristine white - though more often dirtied by lava sand - to the most incredibly deep inky blue.
    • For those who drove at night a ghostly apparition would sometimes cross their headlight beam, turning towards them its own glaring headlights.
    • Some ten per cent of the population claim to have seen a ghost or some other apparition that seems completely invisible to others.
    • The scares come from things that go bump in the night rather than from ghostly apparitions making visitations.
    • The city was full of Undead - everything from animated skeletons to ghostly apparitions, and zombies.
    Synonyms
    ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence
    vision, hallucination
    Scottish &amp Irish bodach
    German Doppelgänger
    West Indian duppy
    informal spook
    literary phantasm, shade, revenant, visitant, wight
    rare eidolon, manes
    1. 1.1 A remarkable or unexpected appearance of someone or something.
      an apparition of the Virgin Mary
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Random glimpses of people and things appear in his work, their apparitions framed within the small space of his attention.
      • In the final apparition, the angel appeared holding the Eucharist.
      • Modernity and secularization notwithstanding, the association between Marian apparitions and war and political turmoil continued unabated in the twentieth century as well.
      • This explanation would explain why many apparitions appear to work like a pre-recorded message.
      • From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
      • Devotion to Mary was based on shrines inherited from the medieval era and the Counter-Reformation, but was fuelled as well by a remarkable series of apparitions that produced some of the most famous religious sites in the modern world.
      • From time to time, Mary has shared these treasures with us through remarkable apparitions.
      • This marks the beginning of a yearlong apparition, when the giant planet will blaze within the stars of Gemini.
      • Then as if an apparition had appeared, a face showed up on the water's surface.
      • Over the eighteen years since the first reports emerged in West Waterford of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, many thousands of people have gone there by day and night to pray and reflect on their lives.
      • Another friend said that he saw an apparition of an elderly man carrying a body and it appeared to be headless and armless.
      • It's something he has never seen before in these waters, but as quickly it appeared, the apparition is gone.
      • It explains numerous religious apparitions and visions.
      • He compares these both to the scriptural accounts of Christ's post-Resurrection appearances and to the history of apparitions in the later church.
      • Then, out of nowhere a bus appeared like an apparition.
      • Glancing from the window in the early evening, a splendid apparition met his gaze.
      • Jupiter has had a brilliant yearlong apparition, but sky watchers are running out of time to view it.
      • She gasped, momentarily confused by the apparition that appeared before her.
      • He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue.
      • One only has to witness the apparition, the manifestation.
      Synonyms
      appearance, manifestation, materialization, emergence
      visitation
      arrival, advent

Derivatives

  • apparitional

  • adjective
    • Altogether there were 21 apparitional sightings, 4 involving two viewers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The patch of wild raspberries, whose location is known only to us and to the apparitional gamekeeper, is laden with fruit.
      • Their daughters, appearing somewhat apparitional, stand behind their parents and watch.
      • At one of these the anomaly was attended by a drop in temperature and an apparitional sighting by one of the investigators.
      • ‘Life is apparitional and passes,’ the passage begins.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'the action of appearing'): from Latin apparitio(n-) 'attendance', from the verb apparere (see appear).

Definition of apparition in US English:

apparition

nounˌæpəˈrɪʃ(ə)nˌapəˈriSH(ə)n
  • 1A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.

    幽灵;人的幽灵般的幻影

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So, basically, I spent every Saturday for about a year in the NY library researching ghosts, apparitions, synchronicity, paranormal and parapsychology.
    • His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition.
    • At this point, you have come to believe that you have a haunted house with bumps, rappings, ghostly footsteps and even apparitions that roam the hallways.
    • Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic.
    • The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
    • In front of him stood five ghostly apparitions.
    • These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
    • They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
    • These ghostly floating apparitions ranged from a pristine white - though more often dirtied by lava sand - to the most incredibly deep inky blue.
    • Unless I am establishing an alibi or there are ghostly apparitions hovering next to me, I'm not too bothered at seeing pictures of myself somewhere, but of course I'm too polite to say anything.
    • Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
    • He seeks to understand the truth behind the stories of good and bad angels, magic, apparitions, vampires, witchcraft, possession by demons, and the dead who come back to life.
    • Miranda, not her, but a ghostly apparition of what she was, rose up on the roof of the car.
    • Some ten per cent of the population claim to have seen a ghost or some other apparition that seems completely invisible to others.
    • In the case of apparitions, or true ghosts, it's the idea of the human consciousness surviving the death of the body and sticking around and somehow being capable of communicating or interacting with us.
    • For those who drove at night a ghostly apparition would sometimes cross their headlight beam, turning towards them its own glaring headlights.
    • The ghosts aren't malignant apparitions; they're special effects.
    • The city was full of Undead - everything from animated skeletons to ghostly apparitions, and zombies.
    • She became a shadow of her former self, like a ghost, an apparition that makes the same trip every day unable to finish it, bound to start it all over again.
    • The scares come from things that go bump in the night rather than from ghostly apparitions making visitations.
    Synonyms
    ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit, wraith, shadow, presence
    1. 1.1 The appearance of something remarkable or unexpected, typically an image of this type.
      (特异景象等的)出现,显形;特异景象
      twentieth-century apparitions of the Virgin
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Devotion to Mary was based on shrines inherited from the medieval era and the Counter-Reformation, but was fuelled as well by a remarkable series of apparitions that produced some of the most famous religious sites in the modern world.
      • In the final apparition, the angel appeared holding the Eucharist.
      • Then, out of nowhere a bus appeared like an apparition.
      • This explanation would explain why many apparitions appear to work like a pre-recorded message.
      • She gasped, momentarily confused by the apparition that appeared before her.
      • Glancing from the window in the early evening, a splendid apparition met his gaze.
      • Then as if an apparition had appeared, a face showed up on the water's surface.
      • This marks the beginning of a yearlong apparition, when the giant planet will blaze within the stars of Gemini.
      • From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
      • Jupiter has had a brilliant yearlong apparition, but sky watchers are running out of time to view it.
      • Random glimpses of people and things appear in his work, their apparitions framed within the small space of his attention.
      • From time to time, Mary has shared these treasures with us through remarkable apparitions.
      • It's something he has never seen before in these waters, but as quickly it appeared, the apparition is gone.
      • Over the eighteen years since the first reports emerged in West Waterford of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, many thousands of people have gone there by day and night to pray and reflect on their lives.
      • One only has to witness the apparition, the manifestation.
      • Another friend said that he saw an apparition of an elderly man carrying a body and it appeared to be headless and armless.
      • It explains numerous religious apparitions and visions.
      • He compares these both to the scriptural accounts of Christ's post-Resurrection appearances and to the history of apparitions in the later church.
      • He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue.
      • Modernity and secularization notwithstanding, the association between Marian apparitions and war and political turmoil continued unabated in the twentieth century as well.
      Synonyms
      appearance, manifestation, materialization, emergence

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘the action of appearing’): from Latin apparitio(n-) ‘attendance’, from the verb apparere (see appear).

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