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

• 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 academic foundation of the criminal record institution is the inherent unification of Nemesis foundation and utilitarian target.
  前科制度的理论根据是报应根据和功利目标的内在统一。
• 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。
• 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。
• It is fair to say Chelsea are Tottenham's nemesis in the Premiership.
  如果说在英超联赛中切尔西是托特纳姆热刺的克星，这听起来一点也不为过。
• Was he aiming at Bryant, his old nemesis and a favorite target in the past?
  他是不是暗指科比，一直的竞争对手和过去最中意的目标？
• He believes AIDS is our collective nemesis
  他认为艾滋病是对我们所有人的惩罚。
• Some think of standards as their nemesis.
  有一些对标准的考虑。
• We would have ended the season without a defeat if not for our old nemesis, Greeley High.
  如果不是遇到了我们难以对付的老对手&格里利中学，这一季我们就不会打败仗了。
• 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。