Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare.带我儿子彼得外出吃饭简直糟糕透了。In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare.毕业税具体操作起来不啻一场行政噩梦。His abrasive wit and caustic comments were an interviewer's nightmare....
By the time he's twenty he'll know everyone worth knowing in Washington.到20岁时，他就会认识华盛顿所有值得认识的人。He fumbled his lines, not knowing what he was going to say.他因为不知道接下来要说什么而把台词给念砸了。I started puttering around outside...