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

• Now, the double whammy of redundancies, resulting from the economic downturn, and more young people thinking twice about university because of huge rises in tuition fees, might suggest the banking sector can meet its requirements without trying too hard.
  如今，一方面是经济低迷导致裁员，另一方面是学费高涨导致更多年轻人对上大学感到踌躇，在这两个因素的双重作用下，银行业大概用不着太费劲就能够满足人才需求吧。
• In the Arctic, soot is a double whammy.
  在北极，煤烟带来的打击是双倍的。
• When the story broke, McDonald` s China business had been rebounding from the double whammy of a food safety scare and a bird flu outbreak that crushed sales in 2013.
  此时，麦当劳在中国的业务才刚刚从2013年的食品安全问题与禽流感的双重打击下恢复元气。
• 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。
• I had a double whammy against me.
  我有两个致命伤。
• 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。
• 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。
• According to Davison, this desirable double whammy will have the positive effect of diminishing supply and pushing up prices.
  戴维森表示，这种符合需要的双料打击将产生有利影响，导致供给下降，并推高价格。
• 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。
• 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。