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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。