| 单词 | nightmare |
| 释义 | nightmare (once / 690 pages) n If you wake with a start after a terrifying dream, you've had a nightmare. A nightmare is not just a bad dream — it's seriously scary or upsetting. You can also use nightmare to describe something terrible that happens during the day. Your run-in with a skunk in your back yard might be a nightmare, for example, or your humiliating experience forgetting your lines in a play. In the late thirteenth century, a nightmare was "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," from the Old English word mare, "incubus or goblin." WORD FAMILYnightmare: nightmares, nightmarish+/nightmarish: nightmarishly USAGE EXAMPLESThe fall campaign was an unending national nightmare, broadcast relentlessly on cable TV. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) It looked more like a nightmare to the short-handed New York Knicks after Harden powered the Rockets to a 129-122 win on Saturday night. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Acknowledging her methodology as “a copy editor’s nightmare,” Ms. Faludi said she flubbed it only once. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream Hyper dream, dreaming a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep 2n a situation resembling a terrifying dream Syn|Hyper incubus situation a complex or critical or unusual difficulty |
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