nemesis

英 [ˈneməsɪs]

美 [ˈneməsɪs]

n.  报应; 应得的惩罚; 不可避免的失败

GRE

BNC.24549 / COCA.15405

牛津词典

noun

• 报应；应得的惩罚；不可避免的失败
  punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 天谴;报应
  Thenemesisof a person or thing is a situation, event, or person which causes them to be seriously harmed, especially as a punishment.
  1. He believes AIDS is our collective nemesis...
     他认为艾滋病是对我们所有人的惩罚。
  2. Yet the imminent crisis in its balance of payments may be the President's nemesis.
     不过迫近的国际收支平衡危机也许是对总统的报应。

英英释义

noun

• something causing misery or death
  1. the bane of my life
  Synonym:banecursescourge

双语例句

• Inward suffering is the worst of Nemesis. The fear of punishment remains as to its substance.
  内心的痛苦是最厉害的惩罚。对惩罚的恐惧仍是其核心问题。
• The tax increases proved to be the president's political nemesis at the following election.
  增加赋税终于使总统在下届选举时得到政治上的报应。
• Nemesis studies are a topic to understand destructive tendencies that are held in the karmic systems of non-resonant biology.
  死敌研究，是一个来理解在不共振生物体的业力系统中所携带的破坏性倾向的主题。
• Such ideological hubris contributed to the market fundamentalism that led to financial nemesis in 2008.
  这种意识形态上的自大，助长了市场原教旨主义，后者则招致了2008年金融危机的报复。
• Unfortunately, the young man discovers that his nemesis is now a powerful vampire with a coven of allies.
  不幸地，年轻的男人发现他的复仇女神现在居然是女巫协会的一个强大的吸血鬼。
• As Google matures, is it becoming more and more like its original nemesis?
  随着谷歌日渐成熟壮大，它是否愈来愈像微软了？
• So a sincere and friendly attempt to placate your nemesis may strike him or her as a pleasant surprise.
  所以如果以诚意和善意去安抚抱怨者，对他/她来说会是个意外之喜。
• I want him in the nemesis program.
  我要用他仇女神。
• There squatted my hated nemesis, Bogy, tied to a post.
  我的死敌博吉蜷缩在那儿，被拴在一根柱子上。
• He or she is your equal in terms of skills, and you have similar records against other opponents. Somehow, though, your nemesis manages to come out ahead in your matches.
  就技术而言他或她和你水平相当，和别人的交战记录你也不差，但在比赛中，你的克星总是能立于不败之地。