Incubus

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

(noun.) someone who depresses or worries others.

录入:门罗

• A recognition of what an incubus it is should make us hospitable to all those devices which aim at making politics responsive by disturbing the alignments of habit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I tore her up--the incubus! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• A subject like the tariff, for example, has absorbed an amount of attention which would justify an historian in calling it the incubus of American politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For all the parade of learning and dialectic is an after-thought--an accident from the fact that the prophetic genius of Marx appeared in Germany under the incubus of Hegel. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• My wealthy relative's cheque--henceforth, the incubus of my existence--warns me that I have not done with this record of violence yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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