hangover

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Related topics: Illness & disability, Drink

hang·o·ver /ˈhæŋəʊvə $ -oʊvər/ noun [countableC]

1 MIDFDa pain in your head and a feeling of sickness that you get the day after you have drunk too much alcohol 宿醉

I had a terrible hangover the next day.

第二天我的宿醉反應很厲害。

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2 a hangover from something REMAIN/BE LEFTsomething from the past that still exists or happens but is no longer necessary or useful 舊時遺留之物〔已不需要或有用〕

This feeling was a hangover from her schooldays.

這種情感是她學生時代遺留下來的。

an institution which is a hangover from Victorian times

維多利亞時代留存下來的機構

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a hangover from something• Huge business debt is the hangover from the buyout mania of the 1980s.• The beat, a hangover from the early Metropolitan Police as well as from the older watch system, had clearly defined features.• SYSTEM.INI is a hangover from Windows 3 and has been retained for compatibility reasons.• It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darning socks!• This, it is suggested, is a hangover from Victorian and Colonial days.• The dispute over nuclear waste is a hangover from the last hours of the Conservative government in 1997.• However, this was merely a hangover from the past; and after the middle of the century even these payments ceased.• But nothing delights him more than his futures markets, which are something of a hangover from his trading days.• She was a hangover from the old days, when he had had to hustle the stuff himself.

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hangover• I was grateful, as I had never before experienced what is euphemistically called a hangover.• Could you try to keep the noise down? I've got a hangover.• After all you had to drink last night, I'm surprised you don't have a hangover.• The company's debt is a hangover from its attempts to expand too rapidly.• She knew that her feeling of awkwardness in social situations was a hangover from her schooldays• I hope it gave them an almighty hangover.• Whatever one's political leanings, the threat of serious disruption from the miners, union seemed quite evidently an ideological hangover.• Extra vitamins, especially B. And I think the medical social worker, once she's over her present hangover.• The plants that grew over their grave are believed to remedy hangovers.• Kevin woke up the next day with a terrible hangover.• It's the hangover from twenty-four hours of daft behaviour.

had a ... hangover• Elaine had a hangover and the shrill ringing of the telephone made her head ache even more.• With the wild night, after two months, sobriety, he had a hangover would stiffen an eel.• When Maria knocked on the door at half past five I woke as if I had a hangover.• I had a hangover that was mutating into some kind of brain disorder.• She had a hangover already and she hadn't even finished drinking.

hang·o·ver noun

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