Nightmare
['naɪtmeə] or ['naɪt'mɛr]
解释:
(noun.) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream.
(noun.) a situation resembling a terrifying dream.
约西亚整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
(n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
(n.) Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
辛迪校对
解释:
n. a dreadful dream accompanied with pressure on the breast and a feeling of powerlessness to move or speak—personified as an incubus or evil-spirit.—adj. Night′marish.
富兰克林校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of being attacked with this hideous sensation, denotes wrangling and failure in business. For a young woman, this is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights. It may also warn the dreamer to be careful of her health, and food.
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例句:
- And the Old Man must have been an actor in many a primordial nightmare. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I have been a nightmare to myself, just now--must have had one, I think. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Well, for a year or so the kiln problem was a nightmare to me. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- To this hour, when I have the nightmare, it repeats the rush and saltness of briny waves in my throat, and their icy pressure on my lungs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I come up, after having fallen asleep myself, below, and find you in your wrapper here, with the nightmare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Calming himself by an effort, he added-- A servant has had the nightmare; that is all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- After which, the nightmare. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Now, indeed, was the life of Tublat a living nightmare. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The blackest nightmare in the infernal stables grazes on Tom-all-Alone's, and Tom is fast asleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- There they remained, a nightmare to me, many and many a night and day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- We were not a nightmare here, where were civilization and intelligence in place of Spanish and Italian superstition, dirt and dread of cholera. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Before it awakened it produced nightmares. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I will make you lead the same life as I do myself,—open-air life,—and in a few months you will find these nightmares of the soul completely disappear. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
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