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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. 她反复做着被困在电梯里的噩梦。
Extra ExamplesSurvivors suffer flashbacks, nightmares and severe depression. 幸存者遭受闪回、噩梦和严重抑郁。 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
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- have
- suffer
- suffer from
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- haunt somebody
- plague somebody
- nightmare about
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an experience that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with 可怕的经历；难以处理之事；噩梦 The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick. 这次旅行成了一场噩梦，他们俩都病了。 - (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. 填写了那么多的表格，真是太可怕了。 Losing a child is most people's worst nightmare. 对于大多数人来说，丧子之痛是最可怕的噩梦。 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. 在城市中旅行正成为一场后勤噩梦。 - nightmare for somebody
What a nightmare for you! 你真是个噩梦！
Extra ExamplesThe 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. 她谈到了这一点，以帮助其他人摆脱成瘾的噩梦。 The nightmare began last Wednesday afternoon. 噩梦始于上周三下午。 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
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- endure
- face
- live
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- be over
- come true
- scenario
- vision
- world
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Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a female evil spirit who was thought to lie upon and suffocate sleepers): from night + Old English mære ‘incubus’.