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词汇 nightmare
释义 nightmare
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈnaɪt.meər/ us /ˈnaɪt.mer/
B1
a very upsetting or frightening dream: 梦魇,噩梦
a terrifying nightmare可怕的噩梦
I shouldn't have watched that movie - it'll give me nightmares.我真不该看那部电影——它会让我做噩梦的。
B1
an extremely unpleasant event or experience or possible event or experience: 极不愉快的事情,可怕的经历;可能发生的坏事
The whole journey was a nightmare - we lost our luggage and both flights were delayed.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。
Being trapped underwater is my worst nightmare.被困水下是我最害怕的事情。
LeFanu suffered all his life from a recurrent nightmare that he was trapped in a falling house.
Strange dreams and nightmares oppressed him.怪梦和噩梦使他感到焦虑不安。
Working there was like being trapped in a nightmare.
I had a terrible nightmare last night.
Nightmares may occur in times of severe tension.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dreaming
be hearing/imagining/seeing thingsidiom
be miles awayidiom
daydream
daydreamer
daydreaming
dream
dreamfully
dreamless
dreamlessly
dreamscape
fantasist
imagination
in a dreamidiom
mile
night terror
oneiric
optical illusion
reverie
thing
Walter Mitty

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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences

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nightmarishly

nightmare | American Dictionary


nightmare
noun[ C ]
us/ˈnɑɪtˌmeər/
a very upsetting or frightening dream, or an extremely unpleasant event or experience

nightmarish


adjectiveus/ˈnɑɪtˌmer·ɪʃ, -ˌmær-/
a nightmarish traffic jam

Examples of nightmare


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


nightmare

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absolute nightmare
Two sets of changes in quick succession would make business planning an absolutenightmare.
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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 a bureaucraticnightmare.
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