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 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 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 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• Today, peace and development have become the prevailing trend, but the world is far from tranquil. War is the sword of Damocles that still hangs over mankind.
  今天，和平与发展已经成为时代主题，但世界仍很不太平，战争的达摩克利斯之剑依然悬在人类头上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。