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

• 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。
• 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 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）
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。