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

• Eurozone lenders face a double balance-sheet whammy.
  欧元区银行的资产负债表受到双面夹击。
• So there might be something of a double whammy happening there if the US had a severe downturn.
  因此，如果美国出现严重的经济萧条，这里可能就会受到种双重的剧烈打击。
• 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。
• But the poor suffer a double whammy because they also spend a larger proportion of their income on food than those in richer countries.
  但贫困人口遭受双重打击，因为他们比发达国家的人们花费收入中更大的份额来购买粮食。
• Those nonprofits learned a painful lesson: Attempting to start an unrelated business venture means they were hit with a double whammy.
  这些非营利组织学到了痛苦的一课：尝试非营无关业务意味着他们腹背受敌。
• The slowdown in television sales over the last few years hit Sharp with a double whammy.
  过去几年电视机销售减速对夏普造成了双重打击。
• 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。
• God knows they may even show up with coffee cups, which could be the double whammy given the "potentially carcinogenic" risk of every Starbucks latte on earth.
  天晓得，有的人甚至会带着咖啡杯到医院，这可真是雪上加霜，因为每一杯星巴克（Starbucks）拿铁咖啡都是“可能致癌”的。
• 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。
• When the wind picks up, cinch down the Columbia Double Whammy's removable storm hood, and keep on skiing.
  移动风暴罩为你抵挡一切的寒风，并继续滑雪。