nightmare

英 ['na?tme?] 美['na?t'm?r]

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復(fù)數(shù):?nightmares;形容詞:?nightmarish;

1. 晚上睡覺時(shí)夢(mèng)見一匹母馬在你邊上，這就是噩夢(mèng)，因?yàn)槿思覊?mèng)到的都是美女，而你夢(mèng)到的母馬。
2. nightmare?――在晚上夢(mèng)見了母馬向你撲來一定是惡夢(mèng)?n.惡夢(mèng)；經(jīng)常的恐懼

nightmare 噩夢(mèng)

night,夜晚，mare,女妖精，夢(mèng)淫妖，詞源同murder.原指夜間與男人交媾的女妖，使人窒息和虛脫，后引申詞義噩夢(mèng)。

nightmare: nightmare: [13] The mare of nightmare is not the same word as mare ‘female horse’. It comes from Old English m?re, 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.

1. Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare.: 帶我兒子彼得外出吃飯簡(jiǎn)直糟糕透了。

2. In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare.: 畢業(yè)稅具體操作起來不啻一場(chǎng)行政噩夢(mèng)。

3. His abrasive wit and caustic comments were an interviewer's nightmare.: 他睿智刁鉆，評(píng)論尖刻，對(duì)任何采訪他的人而言都是夢(mèng)魘。

4. They began to recover slowly from their nightmare of pain and suffering.: 他們開始從痛苦的夢(mèng)魘中慢慢恢復(fù)過來。

5. Discovering your child takes drugs is a nightmare scenario for most parents.: 對(duì)大多數(shù)父母來說，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的孩子吸毒簡(jiǎn)直就是場(chǎng)噩夢(mèng)。