phantom

来自拉丁语phantasma,幽灵，鬼魂，词源同phantasm.

phantom

phantom: [13] Like fancy and fantasy, phantom goes back ultimately to the Greek verb phantázein ‘make visible’, a derivative of phaínein ‘show’ (source also of English diaphanous and phenomenon [17]). From phantázein was derived the noun phántasma ‘apparition, spectre’, which passed into Latin as phantasma. This reached English in two separate forms: as phantom, via Old French fantosme; and as phantasm [13], via Old French fantasme. The latter formed the basis of the fanciful coinage (originally French) phantasmagoria [19]. Other related English words are emphasis and pant.
=> diaphanous, emphasis, pant, phase, phenomenon

phantom (n.)

c. 1300, fantum "illusion, unreality," from Old French fantosme (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *fantauma, from Latin phantasma "an apparition" (see phantasm). The ph- was restored in English late 16c. (see ph). Meaning "specter, spirit, ghost" is attested from late 14c.; that of "something having the form, but not the substance, of a real thing" is from 1707. As an adjective from early 15c.

1. The phantom of the merry-go-round is just a local superstition.

旋转木马的幽灵只不过是当地的迷信说法。

2. The phantom used to appear unexpectedly, but mostly during the winter.

那个幽灵过去常常出人意料地出现，但是大多在冬季。

3. the phantom of his dead father

他已故父亲的幽灵

4. I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.

我发现自己瞪大眼睛看着她,好像她是一个幽灵.

5. She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia.

她正用未来的乌托邦幻想来吸引群众.