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

• I want him in the nemesis program.
  我要用他仇女神。
• 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。
• 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。
• The performance test proved to be my nemesis.
  这场演奏考试证明是我的报应。
• Some think of standards as their nemesis.
  有一些对标准的考虑。
• Don't let jealousy be your nemesis.
  不要让妒忌占领你的头脑。
• 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。
• But she's obviously in love with our nemesis.
  不过她显然爱上了我们的对手。
• Does she is my nemesis?
  她是我的克星？
• Walters will face his great rival and nemesis in friday's match.
  星期五的比赛中沃尔特斯将面对他最强劲的对手和克星。