【原】双重打击，用英语怎么表达

“祸不单行或双重打击”用英语表达是 double whammy [ˈwæmi]，它寓意：

1、situation where two bad things happen at the same time 

两件坏事同时发生的情况

2、double blow or setback 

双重打击或挫折

例如：

1、Boss fired me from the job and I lost my wallet too, what a double whammy!

老板解雇了我，我的钱包也丢了，真是祸不单行啊!

2、It is a double whammy for Lara, she lost his son and husband in a terrible road accident. 

这对劳拉来说是双重打击，她在可怕的交通事故中失去了他的儿子和丈夫。

3、Media claims the cut in public spending coupled with a pay freeze is a double whammy for low-paid workers. 

媒体称，削减公共开支和冻结工资对低收入工人来说是双重打击。

解析：coupled with a pay freeze 过去分词短语作定语，置于其所修饰的名词 public spending 之后，其意义相当于一个定语从句，但较从句简洁，多用于书面语中，相当于定语从句：

public spending which is coupled with a pay freeze

4、With the heat-wave and the electricity breakdown problems, Indians were hit with a double whammy this summer. 

由于热浪和电力故障问题，今年夏天印度人受到了双重打击。

5、Indian public have faced the double whammy of rising rupees[ruːˈpiː] and falling incomes. 

印度公众面临卢比上涨和收入下降的双重打击。

解析：现在分词 rising 和 falling 分别表示被修饰名词 rupee 和 income 的状态。

6、Farmers have faced the double whammy of a rising dollar and falling agricultural prices. 

农民们面临着美元上涨和农产品价格下跌的双重打击。

7、Consumers were hit by the double whammy of rising interest rates and gasoline prices. 

消费者受到利率和汽油价格上涨的双重打击。