whammy
英音 ['wæmɪ] 美音 [ˈhwæmɪ, ˈwæmɪ]
基本翻译或解释:
n. 晦气,剧烈的打击
词源相关:
复数: whammies
详细解释:
whammy 晦气 来自wham,击,打,砰的声音,引申义晦气的。同时见短语double whammy,来自儿童漫画,“shoot a whammy”就是给某人下咒,double whammy就是下两个咒。
用法与例句:
- That leaves many emerging markets facing a double whammy in 2009 .
- 这些行为将导致新兴国家在2009年面临双重打击。
- The hope is that the double whammy will be more damaging to tumors .
- 希望是这会使肿瘤遭受更具破坏性的双重打击。
- This kind of double whammy can be induced experimentally in other organs , too .
- 这样的双重打击,也可在其他器官实验地诱导发生。
- The combination of fewer people working and not working efficiently is a double whammy .
- 劳动人口较少,再加之劳动效率较低,这两者综合在一起是对印度的双重打击。
- The double whammy of graft in the poorest countries is that state funds are first diverted into private hands and then sent overseas .
- 最贫穷国家面临收受贿赂的双重打击是,首先国家资金被分到个人手里,然后再送往国外。