But it's no ghost, according to Lehrer. Instead, the right hemisphere of the brain is assembling connections between past influences and making something entirely new.

但莱勒认为，这并不是幽灵。相反，大脑右半球正在将过去的影响联结起来，从而创造出全新的事物。

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LIKE Ebenezer Scrooge, the markets are being haunted by the Ghost of Crises Past.

就像埃比尼泽•斯克鲁奇（狄更斯小说《圣诞颂歌》中的主人公）一样，市场上萦绕着危机的“过去之灵”。

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The ghost of Christmas past.

昔日圣诞节幽灵。

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The Ghost of Christmas past appears to have manufacturers spooked.

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Then once I find a color, barely an hour after I apply it, I'm haunted by the ghost of lipstick past, a Kool-Aid stain less appealing than my bare lips.

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But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.

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