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
- 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。 - 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。 - According to Davison, this desirable double whammy will have the positive effect of diminishing supply and pushing up prices.
戴维森表示,这种符合需要的双料打击将产生有利影响,导致供给下降,并推高价格。 - 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。 - 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。 - The proposals amount to a triple whammy that could end up reducing the flow of talent to the UK, decreasing innovativeness and removing a major source of economic development.
这些提案是对英国的三重打击:最终可能会减少英国的人才流入,降低其创新能力,使经济发展丧失一个主要动力。 - Double whammy: Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the world's most widespread HIV epidemic, has also been hardest hit by new cases of tuberculosis.
双重打击:撒哈拉沙漠以南非洲,这个世界上HIV最为肆虐的地方,现在同样受到结核病的严重袭扰。 - 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。 - If a person has a double whammy, what could we say to comfort him? Let's see a dialogue first.
如果一个人祸不单行,那么我们该怎么说来安慰他呢?先来看一段对话。 - But while those efforts were starting to pay off with improved profitability, Sony was hit with a double whammy of a severe economic slowdown in its key markets and a strong yen.
但尽管这些做法开始产生效果,利润率出现了提高,但索尼还是受到了其主要市场经济严重放缓和日圆走强的双重打击。