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

• Lex isn't your nemesis.
  莱克斯不是你的复仇对象。
• 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。
• 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？
• But she's obviously in love with our nemesis.
  不过她显然爱上了我们的对手。
• 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。
• 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。
• His disfigured face was like some avenging nemesis of gargoyle design.
  他那张破了相的脸，活象面目狰狞的复仇之神。
• 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？
• 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。