Apparition

Before this awful apparition, I retreat in terror that is upon me as I write. 在這個可怕的幽靈出現之前，我在恐懼中退卻，這種恐懼在我寫作時伴隨着我。

I am not precisely sure how long I stayed frozen in that position, but the next thing I recall is the apparition vanishing before my eyes. 我不能精準地確定我在那個位置上呆了多久，但我記得的下一件事就是那個幽靈在我眼前消失了。

This apparition grew to an old age, until he reached a maturity he could not improve on, and now he haunts the church in which his parents had married. 這個幽靈已到老年，直到他成熟到無法再前進的地步，現在他常出沒在他父母結婚的教堂裏。

She laughed and coughed, and the husband ran from the room with an ashen face, as if he'd seen a fulminating witch, some kind of horror flick apparition. 她邊笑邊咳嗽，丈夫臉色蒼白從房間裏跑出來，好像他見到了一個暴怒的巫婆，像是某種恐怖片裏的幽靈似的。

At the unexpected apparition, no one dared even to breathe. 這個意外的出現，使大家都不敢喘氣。

A Laura-like apparition visited Clemens' dreams at intervals throughout the rest of his life. 在克萊門斯的餘生中，一個像勞拉一樣的幽靈不時造訪他的夢境。

Just like a fleeting apparition. 有如曇花一現的幻影。

He saw the apparition of his dead wife. 他看見了他亡妻的幽靈。

One evening he had a singular apparition. 一天傍晚，他遇到一件怪事。

Apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge. 一具臉朝下的屍體，漂在那池塘邊緣。

Still, the apparition in the dream was distinctly her mother. 夢裏的母親變了。

I'm still trying to figure out what the apparition is behind him. 我仍然試圖找出什麼幻影是在他身後。

He was visited by an apparition, a girl mysteriously resembling his daughter. 他被一個幽靈來找他，不可思議地是一個像他女兒的女孩。

Before this awful apparition I retreat in terror — a terror that is upon me as I write. 在此幻影前，我在恐懼中退卻——這種恐懼即便現在我寫作時依然伴隨着我。

For days this apparition was a drag on her soul before it began to wear partially away. 這個幽靈般的影子在她的心頭縈繞了好多天，才開始逐漸消逝了一些。

Your eyes searched that vagueness, and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. 你的眼睛在迷霧裏搜索，想分辨出那人形四周的東西。

At the unexpected apparition, no one dared even to breathe. One could almost hear a fly go by. 沒料到班主突然出現，他們誰也不敢喘氣，幾乎連一隻蒼蠅飛過都能聽見。

Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment. 我驚奇地睜大着眼睛看着這突然出現的小傢伙。

Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition. 幻影；幽靈可以明顯地看到、聽到或感覺到的，但沒有物質實體；鬼怪或幽靈。

Art is the greatest adventure we are allowed to experience in our brief apparition on the stage of life. 藝術，是我們在短暫縹緲的人生舞台上所能經歷的最偉大的冒險。

After crashing his ship, and being tossed overboard, Columbus sees a beautiful apparition reaching out to him. 他的船崩潰之後，他被扔進海里，這時他看到一個美麗的幻影，哥倫布向他伸出橄欖枝。

From the deck of a ship, the island makes a startling apparition, like the Himalaya just emerged from the Flood. 在甲板上遙望這個海島，觀感震撼，猶如洪水退去，喜馬拉雅羣峯漸次浮起。

Three lessons on, Apparition was proving as difficult as ever, though a few more people had managed to Splinch themselves. 三節課下來，幻影顯形還是那麼困難，只是又有幾個人做得分了身。

At that exact moment the lights in the room switched off, taking the apparition with it, and shrouding the room in darkness. 此時房裏的燈已經滅了，房子一片漆黑，籠罩着一種詭異的氣氛。

I am not precisely sure how long I stayed frozen in that position but the next thing I recall is the apparition vanishing before my eyes. 也不知道我這樣不動又過了多久，可接下來那個幻影在我面前卻消失了。 ^[1]