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，如果美国出现严重的经济萧条，这里可能就会受到种双重的剧烈打击。
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.
由于赤贫国家受到了经济羸弱和粮食价格居高不下的双重打击，很多地方持续多年的减贫工作已经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，体质差的银行在他们最好的顾客移居到别家银行后就必须面对双重的打击，较高的成本和是一乾枯的信用市场。

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.
音乐也就慢慢的紧张起来,但是如果你加倍这么做,将它与半音阶结合起来,就会得到几乎窒息的压迫感,他这里就是这样做的,在正直的人从坟墓中升天时,营造紧张感
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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.