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nightmare n.恶梦；使人极其痛苦的事情或经历；梦魇 (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。 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."

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英 ['naɪtˌmeə] 美 ['naɪtˌmeə] (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. If you wake with a start after a terrifying dream, you've had a nightmare. 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。

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。

Nightmare N Count 可数名词 Wake Frightening Refer Situation 英