| 单词 | incubus |
| 释义 | incubusin·cu·bus /ˈɪŋkjəbəs/ noun (plural incubuses or incubi /-baɪ/) [countableC] 1 WORRIEDsomeone or something that causes a lot of worries or problems 沉重的压力；巨大的负担 Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus. 乔伊斯认为他的美国公民身份在道德上和政治上是很大的负担。 2. ROa male devil that in the past was believed to have sex with a sleeping woman 梦淫妖〔旧时传说与睡梦中的女人交合的妖怪〕 → succubus Examples from the Corpus incubus• 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. (1300-1400) Late Latin Latin incubare; → INCUBATE |
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