英['naɪtˌmeə]美['naɪtˌmeə]
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英语单词nightmare（恶梦）由night（夜晚）+mare（母马、母驴）构成。“恶梦”与“夜晚”的关系很好理解，与“母马、母驴”有什么关系呢？其实，nightmare中的mare不是“母马、母驴”，而是古英语中的一种妖怪，类似goblin（地精）或incubus（梦淫妖）。人们相信这种妖怪会在人的睡梦中掐住人的脖子，使人窒息而亡。由于恶梦常常使人感觉到窒息，因此人们便认为恶梦是mare这种妖怪在作怪，所以把恶梦叫做nightmare。
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If you wake with a start after a terrifying dream, you've had a nightmare.
A nightmare is not just a bad dream — it's seriously scary or upsetting. You can also use nightmare to describe something terrible that happens during the day. Your run-in with a skunk in your back yard might be a nightmare, for example, or your humiliating experience forgetting your lines in a play. In the late thirteenth century, a nightmare was “an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation,” from the Old English word mare, “incubus or goblin.”
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词语搭配 nightmare与以下词性连用 adj. worst nightmare 最可怕的噩梦 bureaucratic nightmare 官僚主义噩梦 logistical nightmare 组织管理上的噩梦 v. become a nightmare 成为一场噩梦 turn into a nightmare 变成一场噩梦