nightmare

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n. 梦魇, 恶梦, 可怕的事物(或情景、人物) [医] 梦魇, 恶梦

发音

UK /ˈnaɪt.mɛə/
US /ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/
US /nʌɪʔ.mɛəɹ/

词形变化

nightmares 复数 nightmares nightmared nightmares 三单 nightmaring nightmaring 现在分词 nightmared 过去式 nightmared 过去分词

别名

night-mare

教材释义与例句

名词

恶梦；梦魇般的经历

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A very unpleasant or frightening dream.

    噩梦

    恶梦

    梦魇

    I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.

    With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.

  2. 2.

    Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.

    比喻

    Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.

  3. 3.

    A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.

    古体
  4. 4.

    A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.

    历史

    Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.

v.
  1. 1.

    To experience a nightmare.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

incubus

上位词 3

dream situation dreaming

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English nyghtmare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night + mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtmār, German Nachtmahr.

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