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Nightmare N Count 可数名词 Wake Frightening Refer Situation 英

英语单词 nightmare
英美音标 英 ['naɪtˌmeə] 美 ['naɪtˌmeə]
中文释义 n.恶梦;使人极其痛苦的事情或经历;梦魇
英语例句 (1) The nightmare gave her the creeps.
(2) Will I wake up from this nightmare?
(3) The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare.
(4) They are charged with the horror of nightmare.
中文例句 (1) 那场恶梦使她不寒而栗。
(2) 我会从这个恶梦中醒来吗?
(3) 大屠杀幸存者经历了一场噩梦。
(4) 他们充满了恶梦的恐怖。
vocabulary简明 If you wake with a start after a terrifying dream, you've had a nightmare.
vocabulary扩展 A nightmare is not just a bad dream — it's seriously scary or upsetting. You can also use nightmare to describe something terrible that happens during the day. Your run-in with a skunk in your back yard might be a nightmare, for example, or your humiliating experience forgetting your lines in a play. In the late thirteenth century, a nightmare was "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," from the Old English word mare, "incubus or goblin."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]恶梦;噩梦;梦魇 A nightmare is a very frightening dream.
  • All the victims still suffered nightmares...

    所有受害者仍然被恶梦困扰。

  • Jane did not eat cheese because it gives her nightmares.

    简没吃奶酪,因为那会让她做恶梦。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]令人恐怖的处境;可怕的情景 If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you mean that it is very frightening and unpleasant.
  • The years in prison were a nightmare.

    监狱里的那些年是一场噩梦。

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词]恼人的情景;惹人烦的局面 If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you are saying in a very emphatic way that it is irritating because it causes you a lot of trouble.
  [emphasis]
  • Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare...

    带我儿子彼得外出吃饭简直糟糕透了。

  • In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare.

    毕业税具体操作起来不啻一场行政噩梦。

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