0 something that causes serious problems and disappointment for a person trying to do something -- 严重的挫折；沉重的打击
It would be a body blow to the industry if the boards were to be undermined.
We are disproportionately dependent upon the carpet industry, which was struck a body blow by the huge increase in the price of energy in 1974.
It will deal another body blow to the hill farmer, who can ill afford it.
That was another body blow to the wool industry in particular.
The area had already suffered one body blow, with its failure last autumn to be designated as an objective 2 area.
What an economic body blow that programme is?
The price of our remaining on the sidelines will be a body blow to the economy.
Is not the statement a body blow to the prospects of successfully addressing the teaching crisis?
