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N-COUNT
鬼；幽靈
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel.
例句
...the ghost of Marie Antoinette...
瑪麗·安托瓦妮特的幽靈
The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
死去的孩子們的幽靈常在該村出沒。
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N-COUNT
（尤指對可怕事物的）記憶，回憶
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
例句
The President is using the two visits to lay the ghosts of the Munich Agreement.
總統正借這兩次訪問來消除《慕尼黑協定》的陰影。
...the ghost of economic mismanagement.
經濟管理不善的夢魘
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N-SING
一絲；一點
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
例句
He gave the ghost of a smile...
他露出一絲微笑。
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
陽光和煦，僅有一絲西北風輕輕吹拂。
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VERB
代人寫作；為人代筆
If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
例句
I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail...
我出版了《每日郵報》的女記者為他代筆的自傳，寫得頗具文采。
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
我為他代寫《電訊報》每周的橄欖球專欄。
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PHRASE
沒有一點（成功的）可能；機會渺茫
If someone does not stand or does not have a ghost of a chance of doing something, they have very little chance of succeeding in it.
例句
He doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of selling the house.
那房子他根本不可能賣得出去。
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PHRASE
（人）放棄，撂挑子；（機器）報廢，不再運轉
If someone gives up the ghost, they stop trying to do something because they no longer believe they can do it successfully. If a machine gives up the ghost, it stops working.
例句
Some firms give up the ghost before they find what they are looking for...
一些公司沒等找到目標便已放棄。
The battery in my car gave up the ghost.
我的汽車電池報廢了。