Damocles

英 [ˈdæməkliːz]

美 [ˈdæməkliːz]

n.  扎莫克利斯

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习惯用语

n.

a/the sword of Damocles
• 达摩克利斯剑（喻指令人忧虑或畏惧的、随时可能降临的灾祸）
  a bad or unpleasant thing that might happen to you at any time and that makes you feel worried or frightened

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 达摩克利斯之剑;随时可能发生的危险
  If you say that someone has theSword of Damocleshanging over their head, you mean that they are in a situation in which something very bad could happen to them at any time.
  1. As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment.
     作为国际汽车大奖赛的车手，随时都有可能发生事故。

双语例句

• The threat, hanging like the sword of Damocles over the head of the members, was meant to get their attention.
  评级下调威胁就如同达摩克利斯之剑悬在成员国的头顶，意在引起相关国家的注意。
• The newspaper reported that the army was very discontent and that this was a sword of Damocles hanging over the government.
  报纸上报道说军队有不满情绪，因此这是一把悬在政府头上的达摩克里斯剑。
• The students 'next goal is to be enrolled in a university. The college entrance examination is like a sword of Damocles.
  这些学生的下一个目标便是考上大学。高考就像是一把达摩克里斯的利剑高悬的这些学生头上。
• As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment.
  作为国际汽车大奖赛的车手，随时都有可能发生事故。
• These bills now hang over people like the Sword of Damocles.
  现在这些债务就像达摩克利斯之剑一样悬在人们头上。
• The Damocles sword of science and technology brought tremendous pleasure in giving the material life to the people, while brought the pople innumerable affliction from the serious deformities constrain to the unbridled development.
  从严重畸形地被压抑到放肆地发展，科学技术这柄达摩克里斯剑在给人们物质生活带来无限快感的同时，也给人们带来了无尽的痛苦。
• The Latin American debt, overhanging American banks like the sword of Damocles ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
  拉丁美洲的债务，犹如达摩克利斯剑一样威胁着美国诸银行（孝瑟M.施莱辛格）
• The possibility of being made redundant has been a sword of Damocles hanging over me for several months now.
  裁员的可能性好几个月来一直使我大难临头的危险。
• And so, the next day, Damocles was led into the palace, and all the servants were bidden to treat him as their master.
  于是第二天，达摩克里斯就被带进了宫殿。所有的仆人都遵照命令，把他当作主人看待。
• Damocles loved wealth and pleasure and envied the life of his master.
  他沉湎酒色.醉心财富，妒忌其主人的生活。