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whammy

/hwam-ee, wam-ee/US // ˈʰwæm i, ˈwæm i //UK // (ˈwæmɪ) //

重击,重击声,重击术,捶打

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural wham·mies.Informal.

    • : the evil eye; jinx.
    • : bad luck or misfortune.
    • : a devastating blow, setback, or catastrophe: The drought and the high price of fertilizer are a double whammy to farmers.

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Examples

  • In a one-two punch, a malaria vaccine in development pairs a shot of the live parasite that causes the disease with a whammy of infection-fighting drugs to immediately quell it.

  • Nepal is facing a double whammy of disastrous infection rates and depleting vaccine stocks.

  • California’s kelp forests, which provide a rich habitat for marine organisms, got hit by a double whammy of ecological disasters in the past decade, says UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr.

  • This week, I was dealing with the double whammy of having just returned home after some time away to a mostly empty fridge.

  • I love being able to sing for my job and it’s my passion too, so it’s a double whammy.

  • Who can forget in 2012 the double whammy of GOP Senate candidates comments about rape?

  • “The double whammy of those two set me on a course of thinking about issues I had never done before,” Sherwood told the Times.

  • For stores like Walmart, which sells groceries and other goods to the same customers, the food-stamp cut will be a double-whammy.

  • Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.

  • This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.

  • This time they ain't none of them screwy Venusians to put the whammy on him, and he's doing okay.