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.- 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。
- As a Grand Prix driver, you have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head at every moment.
双语例句
- Unemployment, like the sword of Damocles, was always accompanying the workers.
失业犹如达摩克里斯剑，随时都在威胁着工人。 - Article 306 of criminal law indicates restrictions of the right to criminal defense and discriminations to the defense so that it has been likened to the Damocles Sword which threatens to the defending lawyers at any moment.
刑法第306条是对刑事辩护权的限制和对律师职业的歧视，它被形象地称为悬在辩护律师头上的一把达摩克利斯之剑。 - 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。 - The likelihood of lay-offs has been a sword of Damocles over the department for months.
部门可能要裁员的消息让这几个月来每个人都提心吊胆。 - As the most serious threat in the human society, nuclear war is just like a Damocles Sword always hanging above the earth.
作为人类社会面临的最大威胁，核战争犹如达摩克利斯之剑始终悬于地球之上。 - 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。 - Bertram: It is. I've had the sword of Damocles hanging over me for months, and now I can finally relax.
伯群：没错，我已经提心吊胆好几个月了，现在终于可以放轻松了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。