Hopes of economic recovery were dealt a body blow by this latest announcement.
最新公布的消息对经济复苏的希望是个沉重打击。
2.HITa hard hit between your neck and waist during a fight 〔颈与腰之间的〕上半身受到的重击
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body blow• But tomorrow, with just a few words, the Chancellor could deal the company a body blow.• The news Herrmann brought was like a body blow.• Suddenly the confidence of the new radicals received a body blow.• The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knifeedge.• Every tale - depressing as it is in its own right represents another body blow to the leasingindustry.• The heat had gradually become an expected body blow which was endurable with certainrules.