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单词 nightmare
释义
nightmare
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnaɪt.meər/us
/ˈnaɪt.mer/
B1
a veryupsettingorfrighteningdream:
梦魇，噩梦
aterrifyingnightmare可怕的噩梦
I shouldn't havewatchedthatmovie- it'll give me nightmares.我真不该看那部电影——它会让我做噩梦的。
B1
anextremelyunpleasanteventorexperienceorpossibleeventorexperience:
极不愉快的事情，可怕的经历；可能发生的坏事
Thewholejourneywas a nightmare - welostourluggageand bothflightsweredelayed.整个旅程就像一场噩梦——我们弄丢了行李，而且两个航班都晚点了。
Beingtrappedunderwateris myworstnightmare.被困水下是我最害怕的事情。
More examples
  • LeFanusufferedall hislifefrom arecurrentnightmare that he wastrappedin afallinghouse.
  • Strangedreamsand nightmaresoppressedhim.
  • Working there was like beingtrappedin a nightmare.
  • I had aterriblenightmare lastnight.
  • Nightmares mayoccurintimesofseveretension.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dreaming
  • be hearing/imagining/seeing thingsidiom
  • be miles awayidiom
  • daydream
  • daydreamer
  • daydreaming
  • dream
  • dreamless
  • dreamscape
  • fantasist
  • fantasize
  • hallucinate
  • imagination
  • in a dreamidiom
  • mile
  • oneiric
  • optical illusion
  • out of itidiom
  • redream
  • reverie
  • thing
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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences

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nightmarish
nightmarishly
(Definition ofnightmarefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

nightmare| American Dictionary

nightmare
noun[C]
us
/ˈnɑɪtˌmeər/
a veryupsettingorfrighteningdream, or anextremelyunpleasanteventorexperience

nightmarish

adjectiveus
/ˈnɑɪtˌmer·ɪʃ,-ˌmær-/
a nightmarishtrafficjam
(Definition ofnightmarefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnightmare

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Deciding what to teach, given the proliferation of new and competing models, requires metaphors which go beyond nightmares.
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Many recurrent dreams and nightmares are unrealistic because they are imaginally metaphoric and free-associative; just like our own language when freed from goal-directed constraint.
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Depressed people, for example, are known to experience frequent nightmares which are due to inner psychological conditions rather than external causes.
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Quite a number of people have frequent nightmares even though they have never been exposed to any particular danger.
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The link between forebrain seizures and recurrent nightmares also does not constitute strong evidence that dopamine systems play causal roles in generation of dreams.
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Furthermore, nightmares have been described where subjects experience the total destruction of their body.
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I believe this is crucial, as nightmares are a prototype dream within revonsuo's model.
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While highly conjectural, understanding better how these pieces fall together could develop our understanding of why nightmares occur.
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Animals with nightmares should learn an avoidance task more easily.
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Furthermore, they say that many nightmares contain bizarre and unrealistic elements.
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In his view, nightmares and recurring threatening dreams are typical and efficient threat stimulation dreams.
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Then we could compare the frequency and content of nondisturbing nightmares to ones that actually wake up the dreamer and cause insomnia.
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Infectious diseases are sometimes associated with the complaint of nightmares.
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Night terrors (different from nightmares) and somnambulism attacks also occur during slow wave sleep, all these data showing non-visual mental activity during sleep.
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Utopian dreaming did not banish waking nightmares, but made those nightmares seem so routine and familiar as to impoverish dreaming.
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Collocationswithnightmare

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absolute nightmare
Two sets of changes in quick succession would make business planning anabsolutenightmare.
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administrative nightmare
There is a mean-minded nature to this iniquitous tax, and it is clear that it is becoming an administrative nightmare.
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bureaucratic nightmare
Therefore, they had a hand in ensuring that the code was not abureaucraticnightmare.
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