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 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。
• 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 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 current imbalance of economic interests in China, is not only the obstacle to economic development, but also is "the sword of Damocles", as a treatment to social harmony and stability.
  当前我国经济利益关系失衡，不仅是生产力提升和经济发展的阻碍，而且是一柄威胁着社会和谐稳定的达摩克利斯之剑。
• The magic of the assessment of student academic achievement makes the assessment become the sword of Damocles to schools, teachers, students and parents.
  为什么需要促进学习的课堂评价结果处理？学生学业成就评价的魔力，就像悬挂在学校、教师、学生和家长头上的达摩克利斯之剑。
• 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。
• However, video-sharing websites are faced with copyright problems since the inception. The copyright issues have become "Sword of Damocles" to the websites developments.
  然而，白视频分享网站诞生以来，就一直面临版权问题的困扰，版权问题成为伴随其发展的达摩克利斯之剑。
• 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。
• It is a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads and it is a fantastic handicap against our only competitor [ Boeing] in commercial aircraft.
  这是悬在我们头上的达摩克利斯之剑，面对商用飞机方面的唯一竞争对手（波音），这是一大障碍。
• A senior French official said the plan, which has backing from the European Commission in Brussels as well as several other eurozone countries, was a way of "removing the Damocles sword of default" while keeping pressure on Athens to reform.
  一位法国高官表示，该方案得到了布鲁塞尔欧盟委员会（europeancommission）和其他几个欧元区国家的支持，是一条“取下违约的达摩克利斯之剑”、同时对希腊保持改革压力的途径。