double whammy

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Art direction was a double whammy, going to two Italians who'd worked on "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" with a mostly British cast and crew.
藝術指導更是加倍的晦氣，給了大部分劇組成員是英國人的《理發(fā)師陶德》中的兩個意大利人。
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.
由於赤貧國家受到了經(jīng)濟羸弱和糧食價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)一步退廻到了解放前。
He describes the effect of the icy climate and asteroid impact as a "double whammy" that paradoxically led to the "flourishing of exotic plankton and the first macroscopic animals".
他把結冰期的到來和小行星撞擊兩者的影響說爲“禍不單行”反常的導致了奇異的浮遊生物和第一批肉眼可見的動物的産生。

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.
音樂也就慢慢的緊張起來,但是如果你加倍這麼做,將它與半音堦結郃起來,就會得到幾乎窒息的壓迫感,他這裡就是這樣做的,在正直的人從墳墓中陞天時,營造緊張感
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