whammy
英 [ˈwæmi]
美 [ˈwæmi]
n. 晦气; 倒霉事
复数:whammies
BNC.35559 / COCA.22678
牛津词典
noun
- 晦气;倒霉事
an unpleasant situation or event that causes problems for sb/sth- With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
自从这任政府上台以来,我们又是增税又是减少补贴,倒了双倍的霉。
- With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
柯林斯词典
- N-SING (困难或打击)同时发生,相继发生;祸不单行
Whammyis used in expressions such asdouble whammyandtriple whammyto indicate that two or three unpleasant or difficult situations occur at the same time, or occur one after the other.- This is a double whammy for public sector workers...
对于公共部门的工作人员而言可谓祸不单行。 - We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
我们目前正遭受到了接二连三的打击。
- This is a double whammy for public sector workers...
英英释义
noun
- an evil spell
- a witch put a curse on his whole family
- he put the whammy on me
- a serious or devastating setback
双语例句
- We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
我们目前正遭受到了接二连三的打击。 - This is a double whammy for public sector workers
对于公共部门的工作人员而言可谓祸不单行。 - But the poor suffer a double whammy because they also spend a larger proportion of their income on food than those in richer countries.
但贫困人口遭受双重打击,因为他们比发达国家的人们花费收入中更大的份额来购买粮食。 - God knows they may even show up with coffee cups, which could be the double whammy given the "potentially carcinogenic" risk of every Starbucks latte on earth.
天晓得,有的人甚至会带着咖啡杯到医院,这可真是雪上加霜,因为每一杯星巴克(Starbucks)拿铁咖啡都是“可能致癌”的。 - The eurozone member countries have, as a result, been suffering from the double whammy of weak domestic demand and falling global competitiveness.
结果是,欧元区成员国受到疲软的国内需求和全球竞争力下降的双重打击。 - Smuggled brands dealt a double whammy to the country, he added, because as well as not having local excise duty paid on them, they did not use locally grown tobacco.
他补充说,由于走私品牌不使用马来西亚当地生产的烟叶,而且又不给当地缴纳消费税,因此,走私品牌给马来西亚带来了双重的打击。 - That would hit the human population with the double whammy of dramatically reduced agricultural production and widespread loss of vegetation, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.
这种特大规模的火山爆发会使人类遭受双重打击:农业产量的急剧下降和大范围的植被损失,结果会造成大范围的食物短缺和因饥而亡的现象。 - The problem: The junk bond market will soon face a double whammy: higher interest rates and a wall of maturities.
问题是:垃圾债券市场将很快面临双重打击:高利率和到期难。 - When the story broke, McDonald` s China business had been rebounding from the double whammy of a food safety scare and a bird flu outbreak that crushed sales in 2013.
此时,麦当劳在中国的业务才刚刚从2013年的食品安全问题与禽流感的双重打击下恢复元气。 - Art direction was a double whammy, going to two Italians who'd worked on "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" with a mostly British cast and crew.
艺术指导更是加倍的晦气,给了大部分剧组成员是英国人的《理发师陶德》中的两个意大利人。