incubus

英 ['ɪŋkjʊbəs] 美 ['ɪŋkjʊbəs]

• n. 恶梦；负担；梦淫妖(据说会趁女人熟睡而与其交配的恶鬼)

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 沉重的压力，梦魇般的精神压力，沉重的负担，负荷
2. 梦淫妖（旧时传说中与熟睡女子交合的妖魔）
3. <古>梦魇

英英释义

Noun:

1. a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women

2. a situation resembling a terrifying dream

3. someone who depresses or worries others

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.
   乔伊斯把他的美国公民身份当做是一个道德和政治上的负担。

经典引文

• The incubus of racial injustice.

  出自： M. L. King

• What an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were..trapped within it.

  出自： P. Ackroyd

近反义词

【近义词】

• nightmare 恶梦