incubus [ˈɪnkjəbəs, ˈɪŋ-]

例句:

• Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.
  乔伊斯把他的美国公民身份当做是一个道德和政治上的负担。
  
• He was at the problem confronting him, weighted down the incubus of his working - class station.
  眼前面临的问题叫他恐怖了.他那 工人阶级 的处境像梦宽一样压着他.
  
• The incubus of racial injustice.
  来自M. L. King
• What an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were...trapped within it.
  来自P. Ackroyd
• She dismissed the titular head of her department as an incubus around the Departmental neck.
  来自C. McCullough