n.

1. 鬼，幽灵[C]
2. 代笔人，捉刀者[C]
3. （电视上的）双重图像[C]
4. 一点点，一丝[the S][（+of）]
   I haven't a ghost of a chance of getting the job.

   我毫无可能得到这份工作。

5. 瘦得像鬼一样的人；脸色苍白的人

vt.

1. 鬼魂般缠住；作祟于
2. 【口】替……捉刀
   It was he who ghosted the general's memoirs.

   那位将军的回忆录是他代笔的。

vi.

1. 【口】替人代笔
   He is ghosting for a movie star.

   他在替一位电影明星捉刀。

n.

1. an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear to the living, typically as a nebulous image.
   ▸archaic a spirit or soul.
2. a faint trace:
   the ghost of a smile.
3. a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or on a cathode ray screen.

v.

1. act as ghostwriter of.
2. glide smoothly and effortlessly.