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Damocles

英 ['dæməkli:z] 美
  • n. 达摩克利斯(叙拉古暴君迪奥尼修斯的诌臣)

英英释意


1. the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)