apparition
/ˌæp.ɚˈɪʃ.n̩/ 名词 C2中文： 幽灵、鬼魂
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially, one by a ghost, phantom, or suchlike; the entity itself. · 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.
- The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- 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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“Which of you is Holmes?” asked this apparition.
I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
You say that before Sir Charles Baskerville’s death several people saw this apparition upon the moor?”
With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path.
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