whammy

英 [ˈwæmi]

美 [ˈwæmi]

n.  晦气; 倒霉事

复数：whammies　

BNC.35559 / COCA.22678

牛津词典

noun

• 晦气；倒霉事
  an unpleasant situation or event that causes problems for sb/sth
  1. With this government we've had a double whammy of tax increases and benefit cuts.
     自从这任政府上台以来，我们又是增税又是减少补贴，倒了双倍的霉。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING (困难或打击)同时发生，相继发生;祸不单行
  Whammyis used in expressions such asdouble whammyandtriple whammyto indicate that two or three unpleasant or difficult situations occur at the same time, or occur one after the other.
  1. This is a double whammy for public sector workers...
     对于公共部门的工作人员而言可谓祸不单行。
  2. We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
     我们目前正遭受到了接二连三的打击。

英英释义

noun

• an evil spell
  1. a witch put a curse on his whole family
  2. he put the whammy on me
  Synonym:hexjinxcurse
• a serious or devastating setback

双语例句

• God knows they may even show up with coffee cups, which could be the double whammy given the "potentially carcinogenic" risk of every Starbucks latte on earth.
  天晓得，有的人甚至会带着咖啡杯到医院，这可真是雪上加霜，因为每一杯星巴克（Starbucks）拿铁咖啡都是“可能致癌”的。
• But the poor suffer a double whammy because they also spend a larger proportion of their income on food than those in richer countries.
  但贫困人口遭受双重打击，因为他们比发达国家的人们花费收入中更大的份额来购买粮食。
• So there might be something of a double whammy happening there if the US had a severe downturn.
  因此，如果美国出现严重的经济萧条，这里可能就会受到种双重的剧烈打击。
• The proposals amount to a triple whammy that could end up reducing the flow of talent to the UK, decreasing innovativeness and removing a major source of economic development.
  这些提案是对英国的三重打击：最终可能会减少英国的人才流入，降低其创新能力，使经济发展丧失一个主要动力。
• Eurozone lenders face a double balance-sheet whammy.
  欧元区银行的资产负债表受到双面夹击。
• When the wind picks up, cinch down the Columbia Double Whammy's removable storm hood, and keep on skiing.
  移动风暴罩为你抵挡一切的寒风，并继续滑雪。
• If a person has a double whammy, what could we say to comfort him? Let's see a dialogue first.
  如果一个人祸不单行，那么我们该怎么说来安慰他呢？先来看一段对话。
• Art direction was a double whammy, going to two Italians who'd worked on "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" with a mostly British cast and crew.
  艺术指导更是加倍的晦气，给了大部分剧组成员是英国人的《理发师陶德》中的两个意大利人。
• We're suffering a triple whammy at the moment.
  我们目前正遭受到了接二连三的打击。
• Smuggled brands dealt a double whammy to the country, he added, because as well as not having local excise duty paid on them, they did not use locally grown tobacco.
  他补充说，由于走私品牌不使用马来西亚当地生产的烟叶，而且又不给当地缴纳消费税，因此，走私品牌给马来西亚带来了双重的打击。