incubus

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishincubusin‧cu‧bus /ˈɪŋkjəbəs/ noun (plural incubuses or incubi /-baɪ/) [countable] 1 WORRIEDsomeone or something that causes a lot of worries or problems Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.2 ROa male devil that in the past was believed to have sex with a sleeping woman → succubusExamples from the Corpusincubus• Public services, by comparison, are an incubus.• A bog-eyed incubus on day release from hell?• From the beginning, however, the engineers, like the artillery, were free of the incubus of purchased commissions.Origin incubus (1300-1400) Late Latin Latin incubare; → INCUBATE

单词	incubus
释义	incubus From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishincubusin‧cu‧bus /ˈɪŋkjəbəs/ noun (plural incubuses or incubi /-baɪ/) [countable] 1 WORRIEDsomeone or something that causes a lot of worries or problems Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.2 ROa male devil that in the past was believed to have sex with a sleeping woman → succubusExamples from the Corpusincubus• Public services, by comparison, are an incubus.• A bog-eyed incubus on day release from hell?• From the beginning, however, the engineers, like the artillery, were free of the incubus of purchased commissions.Origin incubus (1300-1400) Late Latin Latin incubare; → INCUBATE
随便看	come along come along for the ride come and do come and do something come and go come apart come around come as a blow etc come as a blow etc to come as a relief etc come as a relief etc to come as a surprise etc come as a surprise etc to come as a surprise/relief/blow etc (to somebody) come ashore come at come at a high price come at somebody/something come away come back come back etc empty handed come back etc empty-handed come back etc emptyhanded come back from the dead come back in favour