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IELTS BNC: 3794 COCA: 3586

nightmare

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night·mare /ˈnaɪtmeə $ -mer/ ●●○ noun [countableC]  
1  DREAMa very frightening dream 噩梦，梦魇
nightmare about
 Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.
事故发生很多年后，我依然会做噩梦。
 a recurring nightmare (=one which you have again and again)
一再出现的噩梦
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2  EXPERIENCE[usually singular] a very difficult, unpleasant, or frightening experience or situation 棘手的[不愉快的，可怕的]经历[事情]
 Traffic was a nightmare.
交通情况非常糟糕。
nightmare for
 This has been an absolute nightmare for me and my family.
这对我和我的家庭来说一直都是件非常可怕的事。
nightmare of (doing) something
 the nightmare of going through divorce
经历离婚过程的痛苦
 It was every teacher’s worst nightmare (=the worst thing which could have happened).
对每位老师来说，那都是一场最可怕的梦魇。
 a nightmare journey
糟糕的旅程
3  BADsomething terrible that you fear may happen in the future 可能发生的恐怖事件
nightmare of
 the nightmare of a nuclear war
核战争的梦魇
nightmare scenario (=the worst or most frightening situation that you can imagine) 最坏[恐怖]的设想
—nightmarish adjectiveadj
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a very difficult, unpleasant, or frightening experience or situation
adjectives
an absolute/complete nightmare
The whole day was an absolute nightmare.
a real nightmare
The situation with our neighbours is a real nightmare!
the ultimate nightmare (=the worst possible situation)
The ultimate nightmare for any parent is to suffer the loss of a child.
somebody's worst nightmare (=the worst possible situation)
The outbreak of foot and mouth disease was farming's worst nightmare.
a long nightmare
How can we bring an end to the long nightmare in the Middle East?
a living/waking nightmare (=something extremely bad that happens in your life)
Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
a logistical nightmare (=something that is very complicated and difficult to organize)
Arranging childcare during the summer can be a logistical nightmare.
an administrative/bureaucratic nightmare (=something that is very complicated and difficult to keep accurate records of)
Dealing with so many new applications for asylum is an administrative nightmare.
a personal/private nightmare (=a very bad situation that affects only one person)
His personal nightmare began when he was arrested for murder.
verbs
be a nightmare
The whole holiday was a nightmare.
become/turn into a nightmare
Their honeymoon turned into a nightmare when they were involved in a car accident.
a nightmare begins
The nightmare began when her mother fell ill.
a nightmare ends
We just want this nightmare to end!
end a nightmare
He longed for something to end the nightmare.
a nightmare comes true (=something bad that someone fears actually happens)
The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.
nightmare + NOUN
the nightmare scenario (=the worst possible situation)
Emergency planners are trying to prepare for this nightmare scenario.
a nightmare vision (=a very bad situation that might happen)
The book gives us a nightmare vision of a family destroyed by one man's secrets.
a nightmare world (=a situation in which everything is bad and there is nothing good)
It's hard to understand how people survived the nightmare world of the concentration camps.
a nightmare journey/trip (=an extremely unpleasant journey)
Commuters are facing a nightmare journey to work due to the tube drivers strike.
Examples from the Corpus
nightmare• There is a difference between a bad dream and a nightmare.• The hostages described life in the prison camp as a nightmare of fear and uncertainty.• Starting school can be a nightmare for some children.• Thousands of commuters faced a nightmare journey to work because of the strikes.• In the early hours of the morning, at about three, Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.• He woke from a nightmare, trembling with fear.• He came awake suddenly, feeling frightened, as if he had had a nightmare.• There were lots of posters and stuffed animals but all of them had a nightmare quality.• Still, Streep and Neeson are wonderful to watch as they show us how easily normality can slip into a nightmare.• The couple's honeymoon turned into a nightmare when Martin suddenly became very ill.• We were stuck in a traffic jam for about four hours - it was a nightmare.• It was a nightmare driving home in the snow.• As the ship went down, people were rushing around in the dark screaming and yelling. It was an absolute nightmare.• The man looked like something from a bad nightmare.• Highway 17 is a commuter nightmare.• An oil spill on this part of the coast is the conservationists' nightmare scenario.• During the trial, she had nightmares.• Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.• Visions or nightmares for others, but for him daylight events, in full consciousness.
have nightmares• Other children act out in school and have nightmares, the parents say.• If he slept he might have nightmares about Will and Chessie.• I was going to have nightmares for weeks.• He didn't want me to have nightmares, he said.• But after that, I started to have nightmares.• But now I knew I would have nightmares all night: Did I give one little child too much?
nightmare of (doing) something• Everything had been reduced to chance, a nightmare of numbers and probabilities.• A nightmare of wilt and mildew, of fungus and blackspot.• We've all had nightmares of falling.• I still shudder recalling the recurring nightmare of Tuesdays, when we went to the art house to lay out the paper.• That still wouldn't solve the problem of that nightmare of an interview, though, would it?• The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine.• The ultimate nightmare of almost every man is to witness helplessly the rape of his wife.• Urban nightmare of the past Small towns were overrun, new towns created.
nightmare of• the nightmare of cancer
Origin nightmare
(1200-1300) night + mare “evil spirit” ((11-18 centuries)) (from Old English)
night·mare noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
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IELTS BNC: 3794 COCA: 3586
nightmare

noun¹

 1bad dream噩夢ADJECTIVE | VERB + NIGHTMARE | NIGHTMARE + VERB | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤awful, horrible, terrible, terrifying可怕的夢魘；恐怖的夢魘；嚇人的噩夢➤vivid逼真的噩夢➤recurring反複做的噩夢VERB + NIGHTMARE➤have, suffer, suffer from做噩夢➤wake from, wake up from從噩夢中醒來➤give sb給某人帶來噩夢◇The movie gave me nightmares.這部電影讓我老做噩夢。➤haunt常在噩夢中出現◇The faces of all the people he had killed haunted his nightmares.他殺死的那些人的面孔常在他的噩夢中出現。NIGHTMARE + VERB➤haunt sb, plague sb噩夢長期困擾某人／煩擾某人PREPOSITION➤nightmare about有關⋯的噩夢◇I have nightmares about drowning.我老做溺水的噩夢。
nightmare

noun²

 2bad/feared experience糟糕、可怕的經歷ADJECTIVE | VERB + NIGHTMARE | NIGHTMARE + VERB | NIGHTMARE + NOUN ADJECTIVE➤awful, horrible, real, terrible糟糕的／可怕的／十分恐怖的／嚇人的經歷➤absolute, complete, total慘痛的經歷；十分可怕的經歷➤ultimate, worst最可怕的經歷；最痛苦的經歷◇Losing a child is my worst nightmare.喪子是我最痛苦的經歷。➤personal個人的悲慘經歷➤living活生生的噩夢◇The refugees had survived a living nightmare.難民們熬過了噩夢般的痛苦經歷。➤long漫長的可怕經歷➤administrative, bureaucratic, financial, logistical, etc.行政、官僚、金融、後勤等機構的可怕經歷VERB + NIGHTMARE➤endure, face, live, suffer, survive忍受／面對／經歷／遭受／捱過痛苦的經歷➤become, prove, turn into變成／證明是／成了噩夢◇Their dream of living in the country turned into a nightmare.他們在鄉村生活的美夢變成了一場噩夢。➤create製造噩夢➤escape, escape from擺脫噩夢➤relive再次經歷噩夢NIGHTMARE + VERB➤be over噩夢結束➤come true噩夢成真NIGHTMARE + NOUN➤scenario, vision可怕的情景；噩夢景象◇the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment大規模失業的可怕情景◇The writer evokes a nightmare vision of a future on a polluted planet.作者描畫了未來遭受污染的星球上噩夢般的場景。➤world噩夢世界➤journey (especially BrE) 噩夢般的行程
IELTS BNC: 3794 COCA: 3586
nightmare noun
⇨ nightmare (The trip turned into a nightmare.) ⇨ dream (He still has nightmares about the accident.) nightmare

noun

nightmare ♦︎ ordeal ♦︎ horror ♦︎ trauma ♦︎ hellThese are all words for an unpleasant or frightening experience. 这些词均表示可怕的经历、磨难、痛苦的经历。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆a nightmare / ordeal / trauma for sb◆a terrible nightmare / ordeal / horror◆a / an absolute / living nightmare / hell◆a terrifying nightmare / ordeal◆to suffer a nightmare / an ordeal / a horror / a trauma◆to experience an ordeal / a horror / a trauma◆to go through an ordeal / a trauma / hell◆to survive a nightmare / an ordeal / a trauma■ nightmare ˈnaɪtmeə(r); NAmE ˈnaɪtmer [countable] (rather informal) an experience or situation that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with 可怕的经历；难以处理之事；噩梦◆The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick.他们俩都病了，这次旅行成了一场噩梦。◆Nobody knows what's going on－it's a nightmare!谁也不知道是怎么回事，真是棘手至极！◆Losing a child is most people's worst nightmare.对于大多数人来说，丧子之痛是最可怕的梦魇。◆These new regulations will be an administrative nightmare.这些新的规章制度将会造成管理难题。■ ordeal ɔːˈdiːl, ˈɔːdiːl; NAmE ɔːrˈdiːl [countable, usually singular] a difficult, painful or unpleasant experience, often one that lasts for some time 磨难；折磨；严酷的考验◆They were spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court.他们免受出庭作证的难堪。◆The interview was less of an ordeal than she'd expected.面试并非如她想象的那样可怕。■ horror [countable, usually plural] all the terrible things connected with a shocking or frightening situation or experience 使人恐惧的事件；极其可怕的经历◆He witnessed the horrors of civil war.他目睹了内战的恐怖。■ trauma ˈtrɔːmə; NAmE ˈtraʊmə [countable, uncountable] an unpleasant or shocking experience that makes you feel upset and/or anxious, usually for a long time afterwards 痛苦经历；挫折◆She felt exhausted after the traumas of recent weeks.她经受了最近几个星期的痛苦之后感到精疲力竭。  see also traumatic ⇨ painful 2 , traumatize ⇨ frighten ■ hell [uncountable, singular] (rather informal) a very unpleasant experience or situation in which sb suffers very much 苦难的经历；悲惨的境况◆Her parents made her life hell.她的父母使她生活得很痛苦。◆The last few weeks have been a living hell for the refugees.过去的几个星期对那些难民来说简直是人间地狱。
IELTS BNC: 3794 COCA: 3586
nightmare
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