night·mare
noun/ˈnaɪtmeə(r)/
/ˈnaɪtmer/
- a dream that is very frightening or unpleasant
噩梦；梦魇 - He still has nightmares about the accident.
他仍然做噩梦梦见这场事故。 - She has a recurring nightmare about being stuck in a lift.
她经常做噩梦，梦见自己被困在电梯里。
Extra Examples- Survivors suffer flashbacks, nightmares and severe depression.
幸存者会经历回忆、噩梦和严重的抑郁症。 - The faces of all the people he had killed haunted his nightmares.
他杀死的那些人的面孔常在他的噩梦中出现。 - The film gave me nightmares.
这部电影让我老做噩梦。 - Horror films always give me nightmares.
看恐怖影片总是让我做噩梦。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- horrible
- terrible
- …
- have
- suffer
- suffer from
- …
- haunt somebody
- plague somebody
- nightmare about
- He still has nightmares about the accident.
- an experience that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with
可怕的经历；极为棘手的事；噩梦 - The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick.
他们俩生病后，这次旅行成了一场噩梦。 - (informal) Nobody knows what's going on—it's a nightmare!
谁也不知道是怎么回事，真是糟透了！ - (informal) Filling in all those forms was a nightmare.
填写那一大堆表格真是麻烦极了。 - Losing a child is most people's worst nightmare.
对于大多数人来说，丧子是最可怕的噩梦。 - If it goes ahead, it will be the nightmare scenario (= the worst thing that could happen).
这件事如果继续下去就糟透了。 - Travel in the city was becoming a logistical nightmare.
城市旅行正在成为一场后勤噩梦。 - nightmare for somebody What a nightmare for you!
这对你来说真是个噩梦！
Extra Examples- The refugees had survived a living nightmare.
难民们熬过了噩梦般的痛苦经历。 - The writer evokes a nightmare vision of a future on a polluted planet.
作者描画了未来遭受污染的星球上噩梦般的场景。 - Their dream of living in the country turned into a nightmare when they both fell seriously ill.
他们两人身患重病，在乡村生活的美梦变成了一场噩梦。 - the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment
大规模失业的可怕情景 - She has spoken about it to help others get over the nightmare of addiction.
她谈论这件事是为了帮助其他人克服毒瘾的噩梦。 - The nightmare began last Wednesday afternoon.
噩梦从上周三下午开始。 - These new regulations will be an administrative nightmare.
这些新的规章制度将会造成管理难题。 - This has been an absolute nightmare for me and my family.
这对我和我的家庭来说一直都是件非常可怕的事。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- horrible
- real
- …
- endure
- face
- live
- …
- be over
- come true
- scenario
- vision
- world
- …
- The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick.
Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a female evil spirit who was thought to lie upon and suffocate sleepers): from night + Old English mære ‘incubus’.