phantom

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A phantom is a ghost. 幽靈
They vanished down the stairs like two phantoms. 他們像兩個幽靈似的下樓不見了。
2. ADJ You use phantom to describe something that you think you experience but that is not real. 幻覺的[ADJ n]
...phantom pregnancies. …精神性假妊娠。
3. ADJ Phantom is used to describe business organizations, agreements, or goods that do not really exist, but that someone pretends do exist in order to cheat people. (企業(yè)、協(xié)議或商品等) 有名無實的[ADJ n]
A phantom trading scheme at a Wall Street investment bank went unnoticed for three years. 一家華爾街投資銀行的虛構的交易方案歷經(jīng)3年都未被察覺。