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

• Perjury, the Sword of Damocles, put China's lawyers in a dilemma
  对于像律师这样的聪明人来说，绕开职业陷阱也并非易事，伪证这个悬在头顶上的达摩克利斯之剑让转轨时期的中国律师行业面临两难
• 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• In addition, the 306 item of "crime arising from the vindicator, lawsuits agent's participation in fraudulence of evidences" defined in the state's criminal law has become the "sword of Damocles" over the head of lawyer.
  而刑法第306条规定的“辩护人、诉讼代理人帮助伪造证据罪”更是悬在律师头上的“达摩克利斯之剑”。
• 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 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）