whammy
发音
英 [ˈwæmi]
美 [ˈhwæmi, ˈwæmi]
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- n.
- 晦气，剧烈的打击
单词词源
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。
双语例句
- 1. 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。
- 2. 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。
- 3. 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。
- 4. 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。
- 5. 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。