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

• The eurozone member countries have, as a result, been suffering from the double whammy of weak domestic demand and falling global competitiveness.
  结果是，欧元区成员国受到疲软的国内需求和全球竞争力下降的双重打击。
• 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。
• In the Arctic, soot is a double whammy.
  在北极，煤烟带来的打击是双倍的。
• 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。
• New retirees faced "the double whammy of living on a fixed income while managing existing credit commitments".
  新退休者面临着“靠固定收入生活的同时应付现有贷款的双重压力”。
• Children suffer from a double whammy in South East Asia, says Professor Morgan.
  摩根教授说：东南亚孩子是祸不单行。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But while those efforts were starting to pay off with improved profitability, Sony was hit with a double whammy of a severe economic slowdown in its key markets and a strong yen.
  但尽管这些做法开始产生效果，利润率出现了提高，但索尼还是受到了其主要市场经济严重放缓和日圆走强的双重打击。