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nightmare

英 ['naɪtmeə] 美['naɪt'mɛr]

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n. 恶梦；梦魇般的经历
adj. 可怕的；噩梦似的

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复数: nightmares;形容词: nightmarish;

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1. 晚上睡觉时梦见一匹母马在你边上，这就是噩梦，因为人家梦到的都是美女，而你梦到的母马。
2. nightmare ――在晚上梦见了母马向你扑来一定是恶梦 n.恶梦；经常的恐惧

中文词源

nightmare 噩梦

night,夜晚，mare,女妖精，梦淫妖，词源同murder.原指夜间与男人交媾的女妖，使人窒息和虚脱，后引申词义噩梦。

英英释意

1. a situation resembling a terrifying dream

2. a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

英文词源

nightmare: nightmare: [13] The mare of nightmare is not the same word as mare ‘female horse’. It comes from Old English mære, which denoted a sort of evil spirit or goblin which sat on sleepers’ chests and gave them bad dreams. That is what the compound nightmare meant too when it emerged in the early Middle English period, and the metaphorical application to the bad dream supposedly caused by this incubus is not recorded until the mid-16th century.
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nightmare (n.): late 13c., "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," compounded from night + mare (3) "goblin that causes nightmares, incubus." Meaning shifted mid-16c. from the incubus to the suffocating sensation it causes. Sense of "any bad dream" first recorded 1829; that of "very distressing experience" is from 1831. Cognate with Middle Dutch nachtmare, German Nachtmahr.

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Parking in this city is a horrible nightmare.

Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist attack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.

The client sounded like a real nightmare.

Many of them instead become the kind of nuisance-lawsuit filer that makes the tort system a costly nightmare.

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He still has nightmares about the accident.: 他仍然做噩梦梦见这场事故。

The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick.: 这次旅行成了一场噩梦，他们俩都病了。

(informal)Nobody knows what's going on─ it's a nightmare !: 谁也不知道是怎么回事——真是棘手至极！

(informal)Filling in all those forms was a nightmare.: 填写了那么多的表格，真是太可怕了。

Losing a child is most people's worst nightmare .: 对于大多数人来说，丧子之痛是最可怕的梦魇。

If it goes ahead, it will be the nightmare scenario (= the worst thing that could happen) .: 这件事如果继续下去就糟透了。

a nightmare situation: 恶劣的形势

nightmarish living conditions: 噩梦般的生活条件

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。

The years in prison were a nightmare.: 监狱里的那些年是一场噩梦。

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。

How does nightmare do ceaselessly? How did I see horrible book look?: 恶梦不断怎么办啊 ?是不是我看恐怖书看多了呀 ?

But that nightmare may hold the key to a cleaner future.: 但是,梦魇往往又是通往更洁净未来的钥匙.

Vision without action a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.: 没有行动的远志只是白日梦; 没有远志的行动只是恶梦.

One night, after my usual nightmare, a shadow stood above me.: 有天晚上又做噩梦, 醒来后有个黑影子站在我旁边.

Life is like a box of nightmare, you'll never know how horrible the next day is.: 生活就像一盒梦魇, 你永远不知道下一天会有多么恐怖.

Her fist few days in that land ware a total nightmare.: 她刚到达异邦的那几天简直就是一长噩梦!

Failing them is their nightmare.: 考不及格则是他们的梦魇.

I woke cold and shaking from the nightmare.: 我从恶梦中醒来,吓得直打冷战.

He is troubled by [ with ] nightmare.: 他为噩梦所折磨.

I had a nightmare last night.: 我昨夜做了一个恶梦.

The hurricane was a long nightmare.: 这次飓风令人担惊受怕了很久.

I had a nightmare last night, and lost sleep.: 昨夜我作了个恶梦, 失眠了.

I had a nightmare about being drowned in a lake.: 我做了个在湖里淹死的噩梦.

I was glad to awake from such a nightmare.: 我庆幸终于从噩梦中醒来了.

My attempt to get a new passport turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare.: 我试图申请新护照的过程变成了一场官样文章的噩梦。

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