whammy

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So there might be something of a double whammy happening there if the US had a severe downturn.
因此，如果美國(guó)出現(xiàn)嚴(yán)重的經(jīng)濟(jì)蕭條，這里可能就會(huì)受到種雙重的劇烈打擊。
In some places years of progress in poverty reduction have been undone as the poorest have been hit by the double whammy of weak economies and still-high food prices.
由于赤貧國(guó)家受到了經(jīng)濟(jì)羸弱和糧食價(jià)格居高不下的雙重打擊，很多地方持續(xù)多年的減貧工作已經(jīng)一步退回到了解放前。
At the opposite end of the spectrum, weaker banks will face a double whammy of higher costs and a deteriorating credit pool as their best customers migrate to competitors.
相反的，體質(zhì)差的銀行在他們最好的顧客移居到別家銀行后就必須面對(duì)雙重的打擊，較高的成本和是一乾枯的信用市場(chǎng)。

Music goes up generally in tension-- but if you can double that, combine that with chromatic music, then you've got a sort of super whammy of tension, and that's what he's doing there-- trying to build tension as the Just rise from the graves at that particular point.
音樂(lè)也就慢慢的緊張起來(lái),但是如果你加倍這么做,將它與半音階結(jié)合起來(lái),就會(huì)得到幾乎窒息的壓迫感,他這里就是這樣做的,在正直的人從墳?zāi)怪猩鞎r(shí),營(yíng)造緊張感
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a magical spell or power that causes someone to have a difficult or unpleasant time

Whammy is used in expressions such as double whammy and triple whammy to indicate that two or three unpleasant or difficult situations occur at the same time, or occur one after the other.