nemesis
nemesis 英 [ˈneməsɪs] 美 [ˈnɛmɪsɪs]
n. 涅墨西斯（复仇女神） n. 天罚；报应 n. 死对头
名词复数:nemeses
- Use the word nemesis to describe someone or something that always causes you major problems, like the runner on another school's track team who, for years, has been beating your time by a fraction of a second.
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- n. 涅墨西斯（复仇女神）
- n. 天罚；报应
- n. 死对头
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1. We worry that if the companion is not found, this paper will be our nemesis.
我们担心，如果没有找到伴星，这篇论文就会成为我们的报应。
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2. That is a useful quality in an entrepreneur whom financial nemesis has, on occasion, stared in the face.
作为企业家来说这是非常实用的品质，而他在经济上的报应，也不时把他盯紧。
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3. However unjust this may be, they suggested that if and when this companion star is found, it be named nemesis.
不管此种说法多么难以成立，他们提议说，如果发现了该伴星，则将其命名为NEMESIS。
- nemesis 1570s, Nemesis, "Greek goddess of vengeance, personification of divine wrath," from Greek nemesis "just indignation, righteous anger," literally "distribution" (of what is due), related to nemein "distribute, allot, apportion one's due," from PIE root *nem- "assign, allot; take." With a lower-case -n-, in the sense of "retributive justice," attested from 1590s. General sense of "anything by which it seems one must be defeated" is 20c.
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