nightmare是什么意思？

nightmare

英[ˈnaɪtmeə(r)] 美[ˈnaɪtmer]

• n. 噩梦，<口>可怕的事情，无法摆脱的恐惧，泛滥成灾，紧张；
• adj. 可怕的，噩梦似的；

复数：nightmares;

形容词：nightmarish;

例句

• the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment 大规模失业的可怕情景
• The hurricane was a long nightmare. 这次飓风令人担惊受怕了很久。
• I had a nightmare about being drowned in a lake. 我做了个在湖里淹死的噩梦。
• It's been like living through a nightmare. 就像是做了一场噩梦。
• Timetabling is a nightmare for all schools. 制定课程表对所有学校来说都犹如梦魇。
• And yet when he awakens, he awakens to a living nightmare of poverty, neglect and despair. 然而,当他醒过来时, 他却回到了贫穷 、 漠然和绝望这一现实噩梦中.
• People involved in it think it's a nightmare, but I'm sure it will work itself out. 参与者都觉得这是一场噩梦，但我相信其结局会是圆满的。
• Discovering your child takes drugs is a nightmare scenario for most parents. 对大多数父母来说，发现自己的孩子吸毒简直就是场噩梦。
• 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。
• His abrasive wit and caustic comments were an interviewer's nightmare. 他睿智刁钻，评论尖刻，对任何采访他的人而言都是梦魇。

同义词

• n.
  nightmare的同义词之：可怕的经历,经常的恐惧
  horrow, experience, horrible, hell, calamity, tribulation, ordeal, trial,
  nightmare的同义词之：噩梦,梦魇
  dream, night, hallucination, sweats, phantasmagoria, bad, horrid, terrors,
  nightmare的同义词之：怪兽
  evil, cacodemon, phantasm, incubus, monster, succubus, spirit,

英语六级真题

Parking in this city is a horrible nightmare.
出自-2013年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  恶梦;噩梦;梦魇
  A nightmare is a very frightening dream.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  The years in prison were a nightmare. 监狱里的那些年是一场噩梦。
• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  噩梦；梦魇
  I had a nightmare about being drowned in a lake. 我做了个在湖里淹死的噩梦。
  可怕的经历；难以处理之事；噩梦
  The hurricane was a long nightmare. 这次飓风令人担惊受怕了很久。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a situation resembling a terrifying dream
  2. a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

行业词典

• 医学： 梦魇，恶梦：恐怖的梦；
  药学： 梦魇；