The 79-year-old Specter was one of the most senior Republicans in the Senate and held influential positions on Judiciary and Appropriations committees.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Milton's bogey seems to be the specter hovering over women poets or women writers who may find in Milton an identification of poetic strength with masculinity itself.

弥尔顿的惑众谣言似乎是指依附在女诗人,和女作家心中的幽灵，她们在弥尔顿身上发现,诗的力量与男性力量本身是同源的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Now when Virginia Woolf writes that Milton's bogey has shut out the view of his female readers, she seems to be suggesting that the specter of Milton blinds women to the things that they should be seeing, the most important truths out there in the world.

当佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫写道弥尔顿的惑众谣言遮挡了,她的女性读者的目光时，她似乎是在说,弥尔顿的幽灵让女性对她们应该看到的,东西视而不见，这些东西正是世间最重要的真理。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Republican Senator Orrin Hatch - like Senator Specter - is a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Among the skeptics is Democratic Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who also appeared on Fox News Sunday.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

The newest Democrat in the U.S.Senate - former Republican Arlen Specter - is urging the president to add to the diversity of the court.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Specter's announcement is the latest setback for Republicans, who lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives in 2006 and lost the White House and more seats in Congress last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Analysts say that Republicans have had some success in raising doubts about the Obama health care initiative by focusing on the impact of the plan on the growing federal budget deficit and by raising the specter of too much government interference in the health care sector.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02