jinx (on somebody/something) bad luck; somebody/something that is thought to bring bad luck in a mysterious way厄运；霉运；不祥之人（或物）- I'm convinced there's a jinx on this car.我深信这辆汽车沾上晦气了。🔊🔊
- The injury jinx has struck Real Madrid.皇家马德里队深受伤病困扰。
- The team seems to have shaken off the jinx that’s been dogging them for months.这支队伍好像已经摆脱了数月来一直缠着他们的厄运。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + jinxjinx + verb- hit somebody
- strike somebody
prepositionSee full entry Word Originearly 20th cent. (originally US): probably a variant of jynx ‘wryneck’ (because the bird was used in witchcraft).