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.
艺术指导更是加倍的晦气，给了大部分剧组成员是英国人的《理发师陶德》中的两个意大利人。
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。
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".
他把结冰期的到来和小行星撞击两者的影响说为“祸不单行”反常的导致了奇异的浮游生物和第一批肉眼可见的动物的产生。

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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