apparition

UK:  [.æpə'rɪʃ(ə)n]

US:  [.æpə'rɪʃ(ə)n]

复数：apparitions  

n.

1.鬼,幽灵,妖怪

2.幻象,幻影

3.(星等的)出现

4.初现

1 . Ms Clifford decided she would get definite proof of her sighting and snapped the divine apparition on her digital camera.
桑德拉决定要为这一圣迹留下确实的证据，就拿起她的数码相机抓怕下了这神圣的一幕。

2 . For days this apparition was a drag on her soul before it began to wear partially away.
这个幽灵般的影子在她的心头萦绕了好多天，才开始逐渐消逝了一些。

3 . Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old coat which he took for the black flag.
他在接连看到红旗后又见到把旧衣当作黑旗，这使他怒不可遏。

4 . It was, as Bill afterwards expressed it, "during a moment of temporary mental apparition" , but we didn't find that out till later.
恰如后来比尔说的那样，那阵子简直是“一时鬼迷心窍”。不过，我们直到后来才明白了这个意思。

5 . And regardless of whether the information given is ample or not, it appears to one, strangely, as an apparition.
不管这些信息是否有足够的广度，但对于一个角色来说，这些东西就如同鬼魂般离奇。